Ink Quotes - Page 11

• ...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

  Daniel Handler

  Ink And Paper, Enough, Wanted

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.100, Egmont UK

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• To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

  Henry Fielding

  Writing, Romance, Paper

  Henry Fielding (1821). “The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].”, p.305

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• Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.

  Gloria Gaither

  Love, Memories, Special

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• Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Color, Names

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454

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• The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man

  Tan Twan Eng

  Memories, Men, Endure

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.122, Canongate Books

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• It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

  John Galsworthy

  Time, People, Not Good Enough

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• Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it

  Elizabeth Wein

  Cry

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• Eventually she came. She appeared suddenly, exactly like she'd done that day- she stepped into the sunshine, she jumped, she laughed and threw her head back, so her long ponytail nearly grazed the waistband of her jeans. After that, I couldn't think about anything else. The mole on the inside of her right elbow, like a dark blot of ink. The way she ripped her nails to shreds when she was nervous. Her eyes, deep as a promise. Her stomach, pale and soft and gorgeous, and the tiny dark cavity of her belly button. I nearly went crazy.

  Lauren Oliver

  Crazy, Eye, Sunshine

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• Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.

  Veronica Roth

  Long, Black, Looks

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• I start to think, and then I sink
  Into the paper like I was ink
  When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
  I escape when I finish the rhyme.

  Rakim

  Rap, Writing, Thinking

  Song: I Know You Got Soul

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• Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.

  Veronica Roth

  Sibling, Blue, Purple

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• A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Office

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• Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est." As he traced it further and further down on the bare skin of Ronan's back, Ronan himself disappeared entirely, and the tattoo got smaller and smaller. It was a Celtic knot the size of a wafer, and then Adam, who had become Kavinsky, said "Scio quid estis vos." He put the tattoo in his mouth and swallowed it. Ronan woke with a start, ashamed and euphoric. The euphoria wore off long before the shame did. He was never sleeping again.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Tattoo, Dream, Sleep

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• The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

  T. S. Eliot

  Blood, Purpose, Literature

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• In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.

  John Burroughs

  Real, Eye, Science

  John Burroughs (1924). “Under the apple trees”

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• I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

  Graham Swift

  Nice, Mean, Flow

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• Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Inspirational, Change, Happy

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• What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

  Daniel Handler

  White, Feelings, Location

  "Horesradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, April 24, 2007.

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• My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

  Diane Ackerman

  Mother, Hair, Squids

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• PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Confused, Differences, Confusion

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.186, University of Georgia Press

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• I believe in the rest of the story. I believe there's still ink in the pen.... and someday all that's hazy through a clouded glass will be clear at last.

  Nichole Nordeman

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

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• I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Hands, Long

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• I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

  Georges Simenon

  Writing, Water, Littles

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• The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink.

  Confucius

  Strong, Memories, Strongest

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• How do you tell when you’re out of invisible ink?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Invisible

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