Quotes About Marginalia

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.

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.

Let us turn over the pages, and I will add, for your amusement, a comment in the margin.

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

Erase everything you have written, Mandelstam says, but keep the notes in the margin.