Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me. Roberto Bolano More Quotes by Roberto Bolano More Quotes From Roberto Bolano You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims. Roberto Bolano destiny risk running Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. Roberto Bolano sea water way Reading is more important than writing. Roberto Bolano important reading writing When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing. Roberto Bolano one-thing convinced done Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book. Roberto Bolano childhood literature book For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths. Roberto Bolano labyrinth construction reading The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain. Roberto Bolano pain voice mirrors If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone. Roberto Bolano lunatic-asylums would-be thinking Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it. Roberto Bolano soul believe jesus
