Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules.
Umberto EcoFollowers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
Umberto EcoThe cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
Umberto EcoI believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.
Umberto Eco