“but inside she could feel herself starting to scream, or rather, she could feel, and see, the diving line between not-screaming and… — Roberto Bolaño Opening your eyes Copy Share Image
“I saw the way my eyes looked then, saw them with the eyes I have now, and I heard my cry once… — 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 Dining alone Copy Share Image
“It's absurd to see an enchanted princess in every girl who walks by. What do you think you are, a troubadour?” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for. — Roberto Bolano Looks Copy Share Image
I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to… — Roberto Bolano Aunt Copy Share Image
“I began to tremble and he noticed. Why do I have to like the worst ones? I thought, why do I have… — Roberto Bolaño 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 Books Copy Share Image
“For Padilla the shared act of smoking was basically a staging of loneliness: the tough guys, the talkers, the quick to forget… — Roberto Bolaño Broken dreams 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 Another time 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 Angel 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 Book Copy Share Image
“That's what art is, he said, the story of a life in all its particularity. It's the only thing that really is… — Roberto Bolaño Art 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Among other things, my own experience has led me to believe that American naivete can sometimes be more than it seems; it… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.” — Roberto Bolano Bolano Copy Share Image
“One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one’s actions, and that includes one’s words and silences, yes, one’s silences, because… — Roberto Bolaño Moral obligation 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 Books Copy Share Image
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation. — Roberto Bolano Desperation Copy Share Image
“54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta… — Roberto Bolaño Children Copy Share Image
“...the borders he respected were the borders of dreams, the misty borders of love and indifference, the borders of courage and fear,… — Roberto Bolaño Courage 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 Books Copy Share Image
