Ink Quotes

It's not the ink, it's the think.

Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream

Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.

It's easy to actually get the ink on the page, but somehow I've gotta find a way to play this. And I have to find a way to emotionally survive playing this.

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No more ink, no more words, no more b.s. Just me.

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away

...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

The tears had turned to ink.

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the World, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the World, and it is yours to save or lose.

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.

I draw rainbows whenever I see them, with my black ink pen. When I have collected enough, I thought I might make a book called Black-and-White Rainbows.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]

In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.

One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.

Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.

The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.

Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.

There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.

In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.

This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.