Able Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“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

In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious…

— Ian Mcewan

“Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what…

— Carew Papritz

“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire…

— John Updike

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

— Jane Hirshfield

“I live in gratitude to my parents for initiating me--and as early as I begged for it, without keeping me waiting--into knowledge of the…

— Eudora Welty

Writing is the indelible fingerprint of my soul on paper.

— Michelle L Buckley

“I was sitting there, as I said, and had been for several watches, when I came to me that I was reading no longer.…

— Gene Wolfe

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper,…

— Tahir Shah

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.

— Anna Quindlen

“Ink, dark as night, creates words, and as they are read, they become the little beads and baubles of the mind.”

— Suzanne Valtsioti