Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
Roberto Bolano
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Roberto Bolano
Age: 50 †
Born: 1953
Born: April 28
Died: 2003
Died: July 16
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Santiago
Chile
Ay
Never
Reading
Living
Comes
Death
Ends
Certain
Book
Although
Every
Stop
More quotes by Roberto Bolano
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better
Roberto Bolano
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
Roberto Bolano
Reading is more important than writing.
Roberto Bolano
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
Roberto Bolano
Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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.
Roberto Bolano
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
Roberto Bolano
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
Roberto Bolano
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.
Roberto Bolano
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
Roberto Bolano
There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.
Roberto Bolano
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
Roberto Bolano
The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.
Roberto Bolano
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
Roberto Bolano
…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.
Roberto Bolano
No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
Roberto Bolano
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
Roberto Bolano
You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.
Roberto Bolano
I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
Roberto Bolano
Literature + Illness = Illness
Roberto Bolano