Quotes About The Marginalia

#1. In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. marginalia we were discussing today,

Umberto Eco

#3. I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.
Alison Bechdel

Leah Price

#4. Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens
of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.

H.L. Mencken

#5. I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

Tara Bray Smith

#6. I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

Tara Bray Smith

#7. I don't have bionic arms, and I have absolutely no stamina. Once I rubbed out the penciled-in marginalia of a hundred pages of a book that I wanted to photocopy (long story) and afterwards it felt like I'd been wanking off a giant for a hundred years.

Scarlett Thomas