Ink Quotes - Page 9

• Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

  Michael Cunningham

  Ink And Paper, Paper, Simulate

  "Michael Cunningham on Reading the 'Invisible Classics'" by Michael Cunningham, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Retarded kids are the best. When they ask for an autograph I just fake sign a picture and tell them that it's in invisible ink and it will show up later. They totally buy it. It saves me a fortune in markers.

  Zach Braff

  Kids, Fake, Invisible

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• Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.

  Edward A. Pollard

  War, Blood, Veins

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• Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks.

  Pablo Neruda

  Time, Heart, Sadness

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• A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Latin, Real

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.

  Sarah Schulman

  Wind, Magazines, Invisible

  Sarah Schulman (2006). “Empathy”, Arsenal Pulp PressLtd

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• It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

  David Simon

  Hero, Men, Years

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• Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

  Silas House

  Forever, Scene, Whole

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• Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.

  Edward Tufte

  Ideas, Numbers, Space

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• I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

  Tori Amos

  Men, Foolish Man, Giving

  "Tori Amos On Her New Album, 'Gold Dust,' Drugs, Ghosts Writing Her Songs, Ageism And More". Interview with Noah Michelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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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. You can wash it, and wash it, and still never forget what has transpired - a word which here means 'happened, and made everybody sad'.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, White, Feelings

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

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• I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

  Robin Hobb

  Hurt, Writing, Boys

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.2, Spectra

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• It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Trying, Unspoken Words, Bitterness

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Thinking, Skins

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.56, BookCaps Study Guides

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• In the early morning hours, Hannah read at the table by the dim light of dawn. She leaned in close to the pages, chin resting on her folded arms, eyes racing over the words, like chasing butterflies over the hills, to catch as many as she could before going to work. She wondered at how such tales of magic could be contained by mere paper and ink for her to read again and again.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Morning, Butterfly, Eye

  Matthew J. Kirby (2012). “The Clockwork Three”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.

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• And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much pain and still survive.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Pain, Rip, Soul

  Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.169, Macmillan

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• Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Blood, Hands, Secret

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.466, Penguin

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• I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

  George R. R. Martin

  Blood, Ice, Song Of Ice And Fire

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2820, Bantam

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• I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow — written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

  Margaret Atwood

  Keys, Snow, Invisible Ink

  "The Blind Assassin". Book by Margaret Atwood, September 2, 2000.

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• I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Exclamation Marks, Numbers

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• Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.

  Sara Gruen

  Dry, Honey, Moments

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• The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very ... erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Weed, Coffee, Old Buildings

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.84, Scholastic Inc.

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• Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. "I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause–straight up–I don't get it.

  Gordon Korman

  Crazy, Artist, Feet

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• I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

  James Robertson

  Paper, Flow, Elementals

  James Robertson (2006). “The testament of Gideon Mack”

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• The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which hurts - the pulling out of it and putting it on the page hurts. Art can be about the individual writer's response to his or her condition, and if that response comes out of a predigested belief about what the audience wants to hear about the writer's condition, then it has no truth, it has no validity. You either write with your own blood or nobody's. Otherwise it's just ink.

  Clive Barker

  Art, Hurt, Writing

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