Ink Quote by John Updike

“I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles, if I had to. The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts…

— John Updike

What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.

— John Olsen

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

— Jane Hirshfield

I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed…

— Stefan Zweig

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself…

— Seamus Heaney

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit…

— Anne Lamott

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

— Gertrude Stein

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good…

— Amber Tamblyn