Ink Quotes

368 Ink quotes by 292 unique authors

Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est." As he traced… — Maggie Stiefvater
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with… — Veronica Roth
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all… — John Galsworthy
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink… — Ben Katchor
I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing. It… — Robert Crumb
Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was… — Jim Lee
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost -… — David Wroblewski
In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer. — Pierre Omidyar
Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive. — Cy Twombly
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar… — Virginia Postrel
For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be… — Barry McGee
How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of… — Bertha von Suttner
The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me. — John Updike
When a suitable quantity of India ink is introduced into the circulation of a living anaesthetized animal, it is evenly mixed with the blood, and… — August Krogh
A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages… — Roxane Gay
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. — Alan Watts
I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I… — Amy Lowell
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. — Walter Smith

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