Books Quote by Colin Cotterill

“...it’s like tasting a page of a book and noticing the minute differences between the ink and the bare page and using that to…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Know that blank pages feel the urge of the ink as much as tears paint a different pain, changes”

— Goitsemang Sandra Mvula

“He had written in cheap ballpoint ink that had blotted the five pages in many places. His handwriting was a looping but legible scrawl,…

— Stephen King

“As any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the…

— Alberto Manguel

“A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.”

— J.R. Ward

“When ink joins with a pen, then the blank paper can say something. Rushes and reeds must be woven to be useful as a…

— Rumi

“Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener.”

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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

— Shane Koyczan

“An author should leave fingerprints not on the page but on the reader.”

— Elizabeth M. Lawrence

“My writing tools were my most precious belongings. My best quill pen was made from a raven’s feather . . . I was often…

— Kate Forsyth

“...a book is a delicate friend, a white bird, an exquisite being, afraid of water. Darling things! Afraid of water, of fire, They shiver…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“My pen lies idle, its ink long since dried up, leaving me with nothing but blank pages and a hollow sense of emptiness.”

— Paulo Coelho