43 Quotes by David Markson

A simple creature unlettyrde. Julian of Norwich called herself. The most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. Echoed Jane Austen—four hundred years afterward.

Matisse, consultado sobre la piel verde: No estoy pintando una mujer. Estoy pintando un cuadro.

Was it John Searle who called Jacques Derrida the sort of philosopher who gives bullshit a bad name?

An information bureau of the human condition, Theodor Adorno called Kafka.

Was it Brigid Brophy who gave up on a certain Virginia Woolf novel when she discovered that Woolf believed one needed a corkscrew to open a bottle of champagne?

Uno no termina un poema, simplemente lo abandona.

I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.

Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

Oedipus gouges out his eyes, Jocasta hangs herself, both guiltless; the play has come to a harmonious conclusion. Wrote Schiller.