Ink Quotes

Modern poets put a lot of water into their ink. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you. View quote
Henry Rollins
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. View quote
George Orwell
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. View quote
F. H. Bradley
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. View quote
Mitch Daniels
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. View quote
Christopher Morley
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. View quote
Pierre Loti
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper. (Julien Green)
I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut; I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend: "Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut! I got the documentation right here...oh, wait it's at home...in the file...under 'D', for doughnut." View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Memory is more indelible than ink. View quote
Anita Loos
The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful. View quote
Julius Evola
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. View quote
Lord Byron
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. View quote
Mark Twain
Lord when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. View quote
Christopher Morley
I am a galley slave to pen and ink. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. View quote
Mark Strand
My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink. (Carl Hiaasen)
Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books. View quote
Stephen Fry
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man. View quote
Alfred Nobel
The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them. View quote
Camille Paglia