I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my…

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.

— Edmund Campion

“I taught how to be sociable with ink on paper. I told my students that when they were writing they should be good dates…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The inkstand is full of ink, and the paper lies white and unspotted, in the round of light thrown by a candle. Puffs of…

— Amy Lowell

“TO MY COLLABORATOR who buys the ink and paper laughs and, in fact, does all the really difficult part of the business this book…

— A.A. Milne

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

— Daniel Handler

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

— Michael Cunningham

“I do my best impression of a pen and when every problem looks like a page I commit ink to paper”

— Shane Koyczan

Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we…

— Kurt Vonnegut

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

— Olive Schreiner

You are the ink to my paper, where my pen is to my pad, the moral, the very fibre, the whole existance to my…

— Eminem

It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the…

— John Updike

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

— James Robertson

“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them in ink…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.

— Charlie Brooker