Quotes

A science fiction novelist dressed in a Roman toga delivers a speech to an audience, holding an open book like an ancient orator

As the words go by, the author has noticed that he uses a significant number of quotes in his writing project. He has already listed more than a hundred of them. They always appear at the right time, fitting naturally into the flow of sentences and fully nourishing his creative process. Out of curiosity, he wanted to understand them more: to probe their deep meaning, beyond the simple sequence of words, to situate their literary context, identify the authors who forged them and determine since when they have been part of the everyday language.