“For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.” — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.” — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“The sickness is to sit at the base of the lighthouse staring into nothing. The lighthouse is black, the sea is black,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“…no biography of his existed in German even though sales of his books were rising in Germany as well as the rest… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a great writer and son of a bitch. Just an abject human being. It’s incredible that the coldest moments of… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“As far as Popescu was concerned, meanwhile, Dracula was simply a Romanian patriot who had resisted the Turks, a deed for which… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“One night I dreamed of an angel: I walked into a huge, empty bar and saw him sitting in a corner with… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“The style was strange. The writing was clear and sometimes even transparent, but the way the stories followed one after another didn’t… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Ivanov's fear was of a literary nature. That is, it was the fear that afflicts most citizens who, one fine (or dark)… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I am told that César Aira writes two books a year, at least, some of which are published by a little Argentinean… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“And no one moans: there is no anguish. Only our nocturnal silence when we crawl on all fours toward the fires that… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Brief like beauty, Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who love.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share
“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my opinion. There… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share
“I try to find the books that I lost or forgot more than 30 years ago on another continent, with the hope and dedication… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share
“In a word, and bluntly: as they walked around Sankt Pauli, it came to Pelletier and Espinoza that the search for Archimboldi could never… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better — Roberto Bolano Copy Share
“book on Archimboldi, a book that might be the grand Archimboldian opus, the pilot fish that would swim for a long time beside the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share
“The fourth dimension, he liked to say, encompasses the three dimensions and consequently puts them in their place, that is, it obliterates the dictatorship… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share
“Y después de coger a mi general le gustaba salir al patio a fumarse su cigarro y a pensar en la tristeza poscoito, en… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share
