Ink Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

  Richard Hugo

  Writing, Giving, Impression

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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 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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• 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 enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a link in the chain.' It's a strong chain, so rely on it. ... I believe it takes all those great songs in the past to make your song even a little bit good.

  Ketch Secor

  Song, Strong, Believe

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• I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

  Camille Desmoulins

  Littles, France, Revolution

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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