Quotes by : Roberto Bolaño

He had a little single-story house, three bedrooms, a full bathroom and a half bathroom, a combined kitchen-living....

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.....

Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other....

I try to find the books that I lost or forgot more than 30 years ago on another continent, with the hope....

Not only to myself or before the mirror or at the hour of my death, which I hope will be long in coming,....

The heart of the matter is whether knowing evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is....

A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.....

And finally the two of them plunged into the dark sea, a sea like a pack of wolves, and they dove around....

His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor....

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.