Writing Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“The power of the pen does not reside in the ink but in the character of the person doing the writing.”

— Aaron Fruh

“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

“Be not only a good reader, hold a pen and bleed.”

— Leo Jaranilla Gutierrez

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

— J.R. Ward

“Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.”

— Kellie Elmore

“Prepare well! Take two inks; you may never know when one pen will stop writing!”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.”

— Françoise Sagan

“Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly.”

— Rolf Smith

“Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that drips from my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have…

— Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch

“I am a writer. The proof of how I am feeling is always in my pen.”

— Helen Humphreys

“The pen is mightier than the sword; it should never run out of ink.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo