Ink Quotes - Page 13

• The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Humorous, Phones, Intellectual

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.75, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Sea, Want

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Aug 10, 2014

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• Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Book, Dark, Sea

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.266, Random House

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• It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass." I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Stupid, Dark, Class

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.111, Penguin

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• ...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Taken, Writing, School

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Politeness of Princes: And Other School Stories: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.117, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Maybe the girl would get strong enough to withstand an ink exchange with one of the chosen faeries. If not, he could always give her to one of the weaker fey. It seemed a shame to waste a lovely broken toy.

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, Strong, Broken

  Melissa Marr (2009). “Ink Exchange”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

  James M. Barrie

  Daughter, Years, Golden

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.151, Jazzybee Verlag

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• And then she said nothing else, for Henry put his arms around her and kissed her. Kissed her in such a way that she no longer felt plain, or conscious of her hair or the ink spot on her dress or anything but Henry, whom she had always loved. Tears welled up and spilled down her cheeks, and when he drew away, he touched her wet face wonderingly. "Really," he said. "You love me, too, Lottie?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hair, Tears, Dresses

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.852, Simon and Schuster

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• The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.27, Random House

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• You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Women, Book, Hard Work

  Ellen DeGeneres (2003). “The Funny Thing Is...”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red.

  Kristin Hannah

  Heart, Cutting, Blood

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour”, p.157, Ballantine Books

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• Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

  Brian Pinkerton

  Computer, Sheets, Blank

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Ian paused and leaned closer to me so that I couldn't seem to see anything around his face, just snow and sapphire and ink.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Snow, Sapphires, Faces

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• You can’t miss your schedule. Every morning, you’re supposed to stick your right arm in this contraption in the wall. It tattoos the smooth inside of your forearm with your schedule for the day in a sickly purple ink. 7:00—Breakfast. 7:30—Kitchen Duties. 8:30—Education Center, Room 17. And so on. The ink is indelible until 22:00—Bathing

  Suzanne Collins

  Tattoo, Morning, Wall

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• Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a biting coolness--but by the last week of school everything is Technicolor and splash, outrageous blue skies and purple thunderstorms and ink-black night skies and red flowers as brights as spots of blood.

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Morning, Flower

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• Reporters have a different point of view and a different job. Consequently, to the extent that you can help them turn in an interesting story that their editor is going to like and that's going to further their careers, they're going to give you more ink and cover you.

  Roger Ailes

  Jobs, Views, Editors

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something to say. They communicate through text inscribed on true public spaces, rather than blogs and forums. Choosing fewer words, even without being bound by 140 character limits. Using ink instead of pixels. Sending messages in living, breathing space. Pens scream louder into the void. Even if permanent ink is not aptly named.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Character, Artist, Space

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• I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free.

  Jay Asher

  Coffee, Book, Oxen

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.91, Penguin

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• My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.

  Marcel Dzama

  Real, Character, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all, the horror beyond all horrors, sits at last upon my chest, permanently enfolding me in its great covering wings, black as ink, veined in Bees' purple. A creature without a voice. A voice without a name. As immortal as my life. Come here at long last to summon the wind.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Fall, Angel, Wind

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.

  Diane Setterfield

  Book, Ice, Law

  Diane Setterfield (2011). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Dark, Swimming

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• I draw rainbows whenever I see them, with my black ink pen. When I have collected enough, I thought I might make a book called Black-and-White Rainbows.

  Jason Polan

  Book, Black And White, Rainbow

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Marion Zimmer Bradley took apart my first submission to her, covered the manuscript in red ink revisions, and told me to try her again. I had never been so reeling with authorial joy as I had been that day, holding Marion's letter and seeing that ravaged manuscript - finally, it meant that someone cared!

  Vera Nazarian

  Joy, Trying, Letters

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.

  Julia Quinn

  Writing, World, Insult

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