Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game. 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 destinyriskrunning Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. Roberto Bolano seawaterway Reading is more important than writing. Roberto Bolano importantreadingwriting When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing. Roberto Bolano one-thingconvinceddone 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 childhoodliteraturebook For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths. Roberto Bolano labyrinthconstructionreading 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 painvoicemirrors 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-asylumswould-bethinking 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 soulbelievejesus
