“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
