Black Quote by John Burroughs

“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

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

— Frederick Douglass

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages…

— Lynda Barry

The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create…

— Adrian Frutiger

At first, all is black and white. Black on white. That's where I'm walking, through pages. These pages. Sometimes it gets so that I…

— Markus Zusak

My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.

— Leonard Cohen

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

— Robert Mankoff

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning…

— Ruth Ozeki

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their…

— Terry Pratchett

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

— Louise Rosenblatt

“The sneaky heftiness of the book being the aggregate cumulative effect of hundreds of thousands of individually insubstantial little markings, letters and numbers, commas…

— Charles Yu

The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and…

— Al-Ghazali