Identity Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin…

— Beatrice Warde

“I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist.”

— Anne Lamott

“Form the habit of writing your thoughts. The mechanical element assists the power of concentration.”

— T. Sharper Knowlson

“Printed works do not take up mental space simply by virtue of being there; attention must be paid or their content, whether simple or…

— Susan Jacoby

“Failure's sleeve cannot help but brush against the back of gratified desires and insatiability is inevitably left to gaze with smoldering eyes into the…

— Robert Walser

“Inking is meditation in liquid form...”

— J.H. Everett

“Sometimes, I marvel at the wonder of how graceful words seem to appear pen to paper; in others' hands And I think to myself-…

— Joy Chua

“No aacomplishments are important than self realization of self satisfaction.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“Happy are they whose pens fly across the page; I myself hesitate, I falter. I become angry and fearful. My drive diminishes as my…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Mom is a compulsive reader. She reads for pleasure, she reads to edify herself, but more often than not, she reads because she can't…

— Michael Perry

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

— Irving Penn

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