This Is Not a Novel and Other Novels Quotes

“At thirty-seven, in Key West, Ernest Hemingway badly marked up Wallace Stevens’ face in a never fully explained fistfight. Stevens was fifty-seven when it happened.”
― David Markson, This is Not a Novel and Other Novels

“At the age of eight or nine, Richard Brautigan once returned home from school and found that his entire family had moved away without a word.”
― David Markson, This is Not a Novel and Other Novels

“Not long after Scott Fitzgerald’s death, Scribner’s let The Great Gatsby go out of print. And then rejected the collection called The Crack-Up.”
― David Markson, This is Not a Novel and Other Novels

“He must be some escaped lunatic. Said an early Boston review of Leaves of Grass.”
― David Markson, This is Not a Novel and Other Novels

“Bach spent the last twenty-seven years of his life as cantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig. As the best musicians are not available, we must accept a man of moderate ability—had said a member of the Leipzig Municipal Council in hiring him.”
― David Markson, This is Not a Novel and Other Novels