--- title: "Best Roberto Bolaño Wisdom" description: "Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist, short‑story writer, poet and essayist. Browse 303 Roberto Bolaño quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c6/roberto-bola-o-725_books_i-wrote-this-book-for-the-ghosts-who-bec_1805297.jpg" --- # Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) Writer **303** quotes in **655** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Roberto Bolaño was a writer. ## Quick Facts About Roberto Bolaño Born April 28, 1953 Died July 15, 2003 Profession Writer ## About Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist, short‑story writer, poet and essayist. ## Quotes by Roberto Bolaño · Page 8 > [“I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/i-wrote-this-book-for-the-ghosts-who-because-they-re-outside-of-time/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c6/roberto-bola-o-725_books_i-wrote-this-book-for-the-ghosts-who-bec_1805297.jpg) > [Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/then-he-went-out-without-touching-anything-and-put-his-arm-around/) [Roberto Bolano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Arms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arms/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/234/roberto-bola-o-725_arms_then-he-went-out-without-touching-anythi_2067700.jpg) > [“54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/54-the-children-of-the-spanish-lion-said-ruben-dario-a-born-optimist/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ef/roberto-bola-o-725_children_54-the-children-of-the-spanish-lion-said_2961745.jpg) > [“Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/another-time-talking-about-his-books-the-baroness-confessed-that-she/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Another time](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/another-time/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94f/roberto-bola-o-725_another-time_another-time-talking-about-his-books-the_2849469.jpg) > [“Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/younger-than-morini-and-pelletier-espinoza-studied-spanish-literature/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca3/roberto-bola-o-725_books_younger-than-morini-and-pelletier-espino_2972634.jpg) > [“On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/on-the-front-flap-the-reader-was-informed-that-the-testamento/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c8/roberto-bola-o-725_books_on-the-front-flap-the-reader-was-informe_1694834.jpg) > [“Forget about it," he said. "Sell it to a philosophy quarterly or an urban anthropology journal, or write a fucking script if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/forget-about-it-he-said-sell-it-to-a-philosophy-quarterly-or-an-urban/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Forget](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/forget/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea7/roberto-bola-o-725_forget_forget-about-it-he-said-sell-it-to-a-phi_2624799.jpg) > [“These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/these-weren-t-comforting-nights-much-less-pleasant-ones-but-espinoza/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Brave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffd/roberto-bola-o-725_brave_these-weren-t-comforting-nights-much-les_222516.jpg) > [“It was an almost supernatural power, I sometimes came to think (though immediately I mocked the idea), making normally talkative people like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/it-was-an-almost-supernatural-power-i-sometimes-came-to-think-though/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [End result](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/end-result/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/roberto-bola-o-725_end-result_it-was-an-almost-supernatural-power-i-so_1447811.jpg) > [“When Espinoza was left alone (his flight was an hour later), his thoughts turned to Liz Norton and his real chances of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/when-espinoza-was-left-alone-his-flight-was-an-hour-later-his/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Imagined](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/imagined/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9b/roberto-bola-o-725_left-alone_when-espinoza-was-left-alone-his-flight_304744.jpg) > [“Rosa was seventeen and she was Spanish. Amalfitano was fifty and Chilean. Rosa had had a passport since she was ten. On…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/rosa-was-seventeen-and-she-was-spanish-amalfitano-was-fifty-and/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Another time](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/another-time/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bda/roberto-bola-o-725_another-time_rosa-was-seventeen-and-she-was-spanish-a_1425708.jpg) > [“The town was sunk in a kind of crystal ball; everyone seemed to be asleep (transcendentally asleep!) no matter if they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/the-town-was-sunk-in-a-kind-of-crystal-ball-everyone-seemed-to-be/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Autumn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/autumn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99c/roberto-bola-o-725_autumn_the-town-was-sunk-in-a-kind-of-crystal-b_445276.jpg) > [“I went on happily reading well into the night, when no one ventured on to the decks of the Donizetti, except for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/i-went-on-happily-reading-well-into-the-night-when-no-one-ventured-on/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Bibliophile](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bibliophile/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09d/roberto-bola-o-725_bibliophile_i-went-on-happily-reading-well-into-the_1754336.jpg) > [“But I’m scared. And I need company. This morning I drove past the Santa Teresa prison and I almost had a panic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/but-i-m-scared-and-i-need-company-this-morning-i-drove-past-the-santa/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/roberto-bola-o-725_business_but-i-m-scared-and-i-need-company-this-m_2262923.jpg) > [“That night I didn't sleep a wink, said Norton in her letter, and it occurred to me to call Morini. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/that-night-i-didn-t-sleep-a-wink-said-norton-in-her-letter-and-it/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Norton Letter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/norton-letter-550379/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/747/roberto-bola-o-725_quote_that-night-i-didn-t-sleep-a-wink-said-no_830000.jpg) > [“And then Lihn got out of the swimming pool and we went down to the ground floor, and we made our way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/and-then-lihn-got-out-of-the-swimming-pool-and-we-went-down-to-the/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Another time](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/another-time/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbf/roberto-bola-o-725_another-time_and-then-lihn-got-out-of-the-swimming-po_515649.jpg) > [Drink up, boys, drink up and don’t worry, if we finish this bottle we’ll go down and buy another one. Of course,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/drink-up-boys-drink-up-and-don-t-worry-if-we-finish-this-bottle-we-ll/) [Roberto Bolano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Bottles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bottles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ead/roberto-bola-o-725_bottles_drink-up-boys-drink-up-and-don-t-worry-i_1621412.jpg) > [“After that moment, reality for Pelletier and Espinoza seemed to tear like paper scenery, and when it was stripped away it revealed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/after-that-moment-reality-for-pelletier-and-espinoza-seemed-to-tear/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Time](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/968/roberto-bola-o-725_time_after-that-moment-reality-for-pelletier_772242.jpg) > [“I didn't hit her, man, what happened was that Maria was obsessed with the Marquis de Sade and wanted to try the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/i-didn-t-hit-her-man-what-happened-was-that-maria-was-obsessed-with/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Literature](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/literature/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99f/roberto-bola-o-725_literature_i-didn-t-hit-her-man-what-happened-was-t_2434707.jpg) > [“The card for the Santa Teresa cybercafe was a deepred, so red that it was hard to read what was printed on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/the-card-for-the-santa-teresa-cybercafe-was-a-deepred-so-red-that-it/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Cafe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cafe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d29/roberto-bola-o-725_david-lynch_the-card-for-the-santa-teresa-cybercafe_1806476.jpg) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/one-has-a-moral-obligation-to-take-responsibility-for-one-s-actions/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Moral obligation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/moral-obligation/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbb/roberto-bola-o-725_moral-obligation_one-has-a-moral-obligation-to-take-respo_2924564.jpg) > [“For a while we talked about things I've forgotten now. Or maybe we were silent for a while, me sitting at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/for-a-while-we-talked-about-things-i-ve-forgotten-now-or-maybe-we/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Dark room](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dark-room/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07c/roberto-bola-o-725_dark-room_for-a-while-we-talked-about-things-i-ve_2618582.jpg) > [I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/i-steal-into-their-dreams-he-said-i-steal-into-their-most-shameful/) [Roberto Bolano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Asking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/asking/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3a/roberto-bola-o-725_asking_i-steal-into-their-dreams-he-said-i-stea_1677489.jpg) ## Roberto Bolaño by topic [Books (42)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/roberto-bola-o/) [Time (37)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/roberto-bola-o/) [Writing (28)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/roberto-bola-o/) [Writer (23)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writer/roberto-bola-o/) [Poetry (16)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/roberto-bola-o/) [Life (15)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/roberto-bola-o/) [Dreams (15)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dreams/roberto-bola-o/) [Death (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/roberto-bola-o/) [Love (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/roberto-bola-o/) [Literature (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/literature/roberto-bola-o/) [Reading (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/reading/roberto-bola-o/) [Book (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/roberto-bola-o/) [Amor (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amor/roberto-bola-o/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/#itemlist", "name": "Roberto Bolaño Quotes", "numberOfItems": 23, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. 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