Dark Quote by Justin Wetch

“He gazed intently at a sheet of paper, breath suspended, a word on the quivering point of his pen poised and waiting to fall.…

— Patricia McKillip

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells

“The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset…

— Emma Lazarus

“The archival document is a tear in the fabric of time, an unplanned glimpse offered into an unexpected event.”

— Arlette Farge

“Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never…

— Euginia Herlihy

“Writing is not destined to leave traces, but to erase, by traces, all traces, to disappear in the fragmentary space of writing more definitely…

— Maurice Blanchot

“The organist was almost at the end of the anthem’s long introduction, and as the crescendo increases the cathedral began to glitter before my…

— Susan Howatch

“And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later…

— Lord Dunsany

“Seeking for salvation within covers with pages of printed letters”

— D.Kadie

“Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say- here, here lies my beloved; ye know not…

— Herman Melville

“A page lay on his desk. His fingers held a pen. With these tools he built a world. Perhaps the world he built lived…

— Max Gladstone

“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