Quote by Stephen Coles

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

“Look at that," he said. "How the ink bleeds." He loved the way it looked, to write on a thick pillow of the pad,…

— Charles Yu

Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

— John Milton

For any writer, a red pen is such a trigger.

— Jason Isbell

“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

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain..

— Dale Dauten

The permanence of ink encourages one to "go for it," to try to put the line right where it should be... continued attempts to…

— Paul Laseau

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days…

— Graham Swift

“Dipping a cockroach in ink and having it scamper around the page would have left more legible traces to the average reader.”

— Colin Cotterill

“You also use ink to write lyrics that are so private that you smear them in all kinds of figurative ways so people can’t…

— Charles Homans

Ink is the transcript of thought.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

To a theoretical physicist, there is no greater joy than to see that this curious activity we call calculation - the depositing of ink…

— Alan Guth