Books Quotes by Roberto Bolaño

“Her eyes like the ideal geography book: maps of pure nightmare. "The Ghost of Edna Lieberman”

— Roberto Bolaño

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

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

— Roberto Bolano

Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

— Roberto Bolano

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

— Roberto Bolano

“Literature isn't innocent. I've known that since I was fifteen.”

— Roberto Bolaño

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

“Leave the book alone, pretend it doesn’t exist, forget about it, said Amalfitano, you’ve never been interested in geometry.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths,…

— Roberto Bolano

“book on Archimboldi, a book that might be the grand Archimboldian opus, the pilot fish that would swim for a long time…

— Roberto Bolaño

“There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really matters, the wretched cave of…

— Roberto Bolaño

“Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles,…

— Roberto Bolaño

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

“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

“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

“I possessed only a book, which I carried in my small backpack. Suddenly, while I was walking, the book began to burn.…

— Roberto Bolaño

“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes,…

— Roberto Bolaño

“…no biography of his existed in German even though sales of his books were rising in Germany as well as the rest…

— Roberto Bolaño

“I try to find the books that I lost or forgot more than 30 years ago on another continent, with the hope…

— Roberto Bolaño

Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when…

— Roberto Bolano

“Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly…

— Roberto Bolaño

“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

“He was an atheist and it had been years since he read a book, despite the fact that he had amassed a…

— Roberto Bolaño

“I am told that César Aira writes two books a year, at least, some of which are published by a little Argentinean…

— Roberto Bolaño

“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

“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

“From time to time I feel as though my books and figurines were with me still. But how could they be? Are…

— Roberto Bolaño

“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

“I went on happily reading well into the night, when no one ventured on to the decks of the Donizetti, except for…

— Roberto Bolaño

“According to Padilla, remembered Amalfitano, all literature could be classified as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. Novels, in general, were heterosexual. Poetry, on…

— Roberto Bolaño

“I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the…

— Roberto Bolaño

“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

“Without turning, the pharmacist answered that he liked books like The Metamorphosis, Bartleby, A Simple Heart, A Christmas Carol. And then he…

— Roberto Bolano

“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

“Y después de coger a mi general le gustaba salir al patio a fumarse su cigarro y a pensar en la tristeza…

— Roberto Bolaño

“Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university…

— Roberto Bolaño

“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

“Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth,…

— Roberto Bolaño

“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

“On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by…

— Roberto Bolaño