Ink Quotes

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.