Ink Quote by Lauren Beukes

Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

— John Milton

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Henry Petroski

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

“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

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and…

— Albert Camus

I'm still the kid who grew up with ink on his hands from delivering newspapers.

— Tom Verducci

“The properties of ink are peculiar and contradictory: it may be used to make reputations and unmake them; to blacken them and to make…

— Ambrose Bierce

“This is not one of your fictions where people bleed ink.”

— Terence Paul Winter

“A mistake in ink is a mistake that stinks.”

— Stephanie Verni

“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

Our lives are written in disappearing ink.

— Michelle Cliff