Queen Victoria Quote by James Clavell

“Just ink,’ he says. 'Just ink.’ Probably the most dangerous substance on this here earth. There’ve been wars started by 'just ink.”

— Christian Baines

“Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth.”

— Henry Petroski

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— Kate Forsyth

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Ink is the most valuable part of a gold plated pen.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“There are the boys for whom the ink of a million glittery gel pens was spilled.”

— Katie Heaney

“The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory” (Confucius).”

— Peter D. Polchinski

“When you use your pen to think, you’re never wasting ink.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“All that ink, all that pigment, all that desperate action to preserve that which had been created -- it is valuable because story is…

— Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

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

— Robert Mankoff