213 Quotes by Roberto Bolano

Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.

What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others...And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what?

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.

Every hundred feet the world changes.

You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.