Umberto Eco(1932-2016)

A few years before his death, he confessed that he hated his first novel, 'The Name of the Rose', and was annoyed that it was so much more popular than his later books. It is also the only book of his that was adapted into a movie, which he gave a mixed review.

[When asked if he was working on another novel after the publication of Numero Zero] My books are usually written six years from one to the other. It was eight years for Foucault's Pendulum. So we will have to talk again when I am 90.