We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Her eyes like the ideal geography book: maps of pure nightmare. "The Ghost of Edna Lieberman” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me all of a sudden, said Amalfitano, it’s a Duchamp idea, leaving a geometry book hanging exposed to the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“book on Archimboldi, a book that might be the grand Archimboldian opus, the pilot fish that would swim for a long time… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really matters, the wretched cave of… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the… — 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
“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Y después de coger a mi general le gustaba salir al patio a fumarse su cigarro y a pensar en la tristeza… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I try to find the books that I lost or forgot more than 30 years ago on another continent, with the hope… — 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
“This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I possessed only a book, which I carried in my small backpack. Suddenly, while I was walking, the book began to burn.… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“From time to time I feel as though my books and figurines were with me still. But how could they be? Are… — 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
“Sometimes, after they'd done the shopping, they would stop, each with his or her cart, in front of a bookstore that carried… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“He was an atheist and it had been years since he read a book, despite the fact that he had amassed a… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The… — 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
“According to Padilla, remembered Amalfitano, all literature could be classified as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. Novels, in general, were heterosexual. Poetry, on… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I went on happily reading well into the night, when no one ventured on to the decks of the Donizetti, except for… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“He had a little single-story house, three bedrooms, a full bathroom and a half bathroom, a combined kitchen-living room-dining room with windows… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Without turning, the pharmacist answered that he liked books like The Metamorphosis, Bartleby, A Simple Heart, A Christmas Carol. And then he… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“One of the inconveniences of stealing books—especially for a novice like myself—is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.” — Roberto Bolaño 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
They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Leave the book alone, pretend it doesn’t exist, forget about it, said Amalfitano, you’ve never been interested in geometry.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“When I was an adolescent I wanted to be a Jew, a Bolshevik, black, homosexual, a junkie, half-crazy, and--the crowning touch-- a… — 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
“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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“The brief sound is like a color swallowed by a crack. But what color?” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“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 Image
