Reader’s Block Quotes

“Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.”
― David Markson, Reader’s Block

“Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?”
― David Markson, Reader’s Block

“Unquestionably it would have been Mary Magdalene who did the dishes at the Last Supper.

Concluded Marguerite Yourcenar.”
― David Markson, Reader’s Block

“Petrarch sometimes wrote letters to long-dead authors. He was also a dedicated hunter of classic manuscripts. Once, after discovering some previously unknown works of Cicero, he wrote Cicero the news.”
― David Markson, Reader’s Block

“Oft did I weary of wrestling with thee.
Carved an unknown galley slave into an oar.
And Rudyard Kipling into his desk.”
― David Markson, Reader’s Block

“Uno no termina un poema, simplemente lo abandona.”
― David Markson, Reader’s Block

“Matisse, consultado sobre la piel verde: No estoy pintando una mujer. Estoy pintando un cuadro.”
― David Markson, Reader’s Block

“El hombre nunca hace el mal tan completa y alegremente como cuando lo hace por convicción religiosa. Dijo Pascal.”
― David Markson, La soledad del lector

“Mahatma Gandhi: No veo virtud en estar desinformado.”
― David Markson, La soledad del lector

“La tiranía de los ignorantes es insuperable y está asegurada por siempre jamás. Dijo Einstein.”
― David Markson, La soledad del lector