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I got through so much ink in the learning that the inkseller took to knocking at least once a week on the garden door. He had a gray solemn face that looked as if it was chiseled out of stone; he was stooped down like the letter C, as if he were Atlas carrying the weight of the world in his wooden barrel of ink. Maybe he did. I have learned that there is great power in words, no matter how long or short they be. By Sally Gardner Door Ink Learning Inkseller Knocking

This is not one of your fictions where people bleed ink. By Terence Paul Winter Ink Fictions People Bleed

I knew all too well the damage of scarlet ink smeared across page-after-page ... By Jazz Feylynn Knew Damage Scarlet Ink Smeared

The ink of a pen is simply the blood of a heart By Michael Biondi Heart Ink Pen Simply Blood

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning. By Jean Genet Meaning Ink White Page

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men. By Tori Amos Men Give Ink Foolish

like a drop of ink in a glass of milk By Thrity Umrigar Milk Drop Ink Glass

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint. By Pierre Soulages Black Favorite Ink Paint Loved

Memory is more indelible than ink. By Anita Loos Memory Ink Indelible

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons. By Samuel Hopkins Adams Printer Ink Cure Poisons Spells

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink. By Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Ink Magical Texture Tone Colour

One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides. By Ralph Steadman Inks Halftone Combinations Hides Derive

A light white, a disgras, an ink spot, a rosy charm. By Gertrude Stein White Disgras Spot Charm Light

You read like a vampire who feeds on ink. By Paul Griffin Ink Read Vampire Feeds

Prepare well! Take two inks; you may never know when one pen will stop writing! By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Prepare Inks Writing Pen Stop

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. By Georges Simenon Bit Sponge Water Writing Absorb

Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain. By Fennel Hudson Proper Bottle Glass Rain Writing

The tears had turned to ink ... By Dawna Markova Ink Tears Turned

Some seeksolace inwhiskey,I drown mysorrowsin ink. By Noor Shirazie Ink Seeksolace Inwhiskeyi Drown Mysorrowsin

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink By Andy Stanley Pencil Ink Plans Write Visions

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Modern Ink Poets Add Lot

What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink. By John Olsen Ink Joy Hearing Make Thinking

Now the words are on paper and I can't take them back. Sometimes I hate ink. Its so permanent. By Jodi Meadows Back Words Paper Ink Permanent

I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable. By Rick Danko Ink Recyclable Soybean Based

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. By Mark Twain Barrel Pick Fight People Buy

Ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink. By Melissa Lee-Houghton Ink Page Oxstern Single Bleary

The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink. By Confucius Ink Strongest Memory Strong Weakest

The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand. By Adrian Rogers Memory Weakest Ink Study Hand

There is aerated ink caked in the air vents from the printing presses that shake the whole building when they run. Some reporters have ink in their veins. The Sun-Times staff have ink in their lungs. Once in a while someone will complain to OSHA. By Lauren Beukes Ink Run Aerated Caked Air

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. By Christopher Morley Gunpowder Printer Ink Years Running

I am a galley slave to pen and ink. By Honore De Balzac Ink Galley Slave Pen

Ink and paper were the only place where my voice didn't falter, didn't betray the real me. By Sarah Ockler Ink Falter Paper Place Voice

When the ink runs dry, you're most likely writing at the wrong angle. By Carolyn Shields Dry Angle Ink Runs Writing

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. By Janet Flanner Sponge Act Weeks Soak Squeeze

An ocean of ink in a single drop,Trembling at the tip of my brush.Poised above stark white paper,A universe waits for existence. By Lao-Tzu Existence Ocean Ink Single Droptrembling

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen. By Fennel Hudson Damp Write Book Smells Dust

And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills. By Lord Dunsany Dead Years Time Ages Centuries

Who says paper worldsAre an escape from what is real?As though the lives trapped in their bindingAre not ones that make you feel.For sometimes our greatest lessonsCome from those with ink for skin,Who reach beyond the pageTo take our hand and pull us in. By Erin Hanson Real Paper Worldsare Escape Lives

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press. By Horace Greeley Printer Progress Press Ink Great

Ink and a different hairstyle doesn't change who you are. Life does. By J.l. Berg Ink Hairstyle Change Life

The ink line drawing flowed the cursive journey,created on paper canvas that brought the story to life. By Jazz Feylynn Life Ink Line Drawing Flowed

I could see where the faded ink intersected with its surface, half-absorbed but half not, rendering part of every word a mere whisper, the shadow left behind when all its thicker parts had rotted away. By Gemma Files Surface Halfabsorbed Rendering Whisper Faded

My page was too whiteMy ink was too thinThe day wouldn't writeWhat the night pencilled in By Leonard Cohen Page Whitemy Ink Thinthe Day

Every author bleedsa different color of ink,some light, some dark, but alwayswith an element of truth... By Suzanne Steele Light Dark Truth Author Bleedsa

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon ... By Tommy Lasorda Gallon Argue People Buy Ink

I feel like everything great that's beginning to happen in my career started with the 'ink' Paste Magazine gave me! By Meiko Ink Paste Magazine Feel Great

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Ink Inkpot Dip Pen Blackest

Let thy words be few. I agree, but only if my ink can relentlessly run. By Delano Johnson Thy Words Agree Run Ink

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood. By Paul Monette Artist Blood Reach Pen Full

You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you. By Rachel Caine Boy Blood Ink Books Business

Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it By Elizabeth Wein Stop Amazing Smear Ink Cry

My pen is the key to a fantastic bordello, and once the gate is opened, it ejaculates a bloody ink. The virgin paper set to shriek evokes worlds heretofore unknown: eruptive, incorruptible, suffocating. By Rikki Ducornet Bordello Opened Ink Pen Key

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. By Carlos Ruiz Zafon Poetry Tears Fiction Blood Ink

A match as a penBlood on the floor as inkThe forgotten gauze cover as paperBut what should I write?I might just manage my addressThis ink is strange; it clotsI write you from a prisonin Greece By Alexanderos Panagoulis Greece Write Strange Match Penblood

This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it. By Jazz Feylynn Assignment Damn Project Words Face

When in doubt, scribble. By Jean Wilson Scribble Doubt

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. By Pierre Loti Blots Pictures Task Books Full

The strongest feelings I have about printing always return to three simple concepts: the sculptural nature of type, the inevitableness of its arrangement on the page, and the authority of its impression. By Warren Chappell Concepts Type Page Impression Strongest

Ooh, J, he's got ink too." "Just when i didn't think he could get any hotter ... By Tammara Webber Ooh Ink Hotter

As Tolkien points out, the name is "a pleasantly ingenious pun," referring to those who "dabble in ink." It also suggests people "with vague or half-formed intimations and ideas. By Diana Pavlac Glyer Tolkien Pun Referring Dabble Ink

The brightest memory fades faster than the dullest ink. By Claudia Rankine Ink Brightest Memory Fades Faster

Love is the magic ink, which transform everyday life into a poetry. By Debasish Mridha Love Ink Poetry Magic Transform

It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge. By Jay Mcinerney Abstract Expressionist Publishing Approach Throw

I held it close to my face and smelled the ink. I have always loved the smell of ink in a new book. By Chaim Potok Ink Held Close Face Smelled

There could not well be more ink splashed about it, if it had been roofless from its first construction, and the skies had rained, snowed, hailed, and blown ink through the varying seasons of the year. By Charles Dickens Snowed Hailed Ink Construction Rained

There are only three kinds of ink that rulers use to write their stories. Sweat, blood, or tears. So choose your ink carefully, because one day Anubis will weigh your heart upon on a scale. If your heart is black and heavy with sin, it will go to the crocodiles in the hour of judgment. But if you're faithful, Isis offers immortality. By Stephanie Dray Stories Kinds Rulers Write Ink

The permanence of ink encourages one to "go for it," to try to put the line right where it should be ... continued attempts to place lines accurately build the eye-hand coordination necessary for sketching. By Paul Laseau Permanence Ink Encourages Put Line

Our lives are written in disappearing ink. By Michelle Cliff Ink Lives Written Disappearing

If I could sleep with my arms around you, the ink could stay in the bottle. By Shelly King Bottle Sleep Arms Ink Stay

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Blood Answer Ink Flesh

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. By Brian Pinkerton Ink Tackling Blank Sheet Diversions

But paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in. By Lynda Barry Paper Ink Conjuring Abilities Arrangements

I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist. O'Henry 'The Plutonian Fire' (1905) By O. Henry Write Game Heart Blood Fire

Forget ideas, Mr. Author. What kind of pen do you use? By Stephen Fry Author Forget Ideas Kind Pen

I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises. By Maurice Sendak Life Doodling Ink Watercolor Paper

laid out the quill, ink, sand, and paper. By Susan Martins Miller Ink Sand Laid Quill Paper

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her. By Frank Miller Inking Brush Beautiful Woman Lot

I feel as if I can think only when I see the words flowing from the nib of my quill, that my thoughts make sense only when they are black ink on cream paper. I love the sensation of a thought in my head and the vision of the word on the page. By Philippa Gregory Quill Paper Feel Flowing Nib

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life. By Alexandra Cousteau Water Life Ink Writes Poetry

one to know. I have spilt some ink on my dress and I am concealing it with paint.' Charlotte pointed at the blemish with her finger. 'There! Good as new.' 'But what on earth were you doing messing about with ink in a white ball gown? I thought girls had better things to do before a ball, like getting their hair arranged By Daisy Goodwin Ink Ball Paint Charlotte Finger

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. By Eric Ambler International Paper Blood Business Conduct

I summon worlds into existence employing nothing but ink and paper. By Thomm Quackenbush Paper Summon Worlds Existence Employing

Colorific ink is the best class of inks.We produces many types of inks according to customers needs.All the products of colorific ink's are easy to use and not harmfull for hands.We are manufacturer and destributor of inks.Inks are manufactured according to printers.All inks are produced for printers.Colorific deveded their products into following formates that are large format inks,grand format inks,lightbar,accessiries,waterbased ink,printheads/spares.All of them are based on different types of inks and their property also different from each other.Colorific's products are of high quality products. By Adam Lewis Products Inks Colorific Types Ink

but the more ink he added, the more vulnerable I felt. There was a chance I might shatter if I revealed too much. By Helena Hunting Added Felt Ink Vulnerable Chance

She had found more than peace of mind. She had discovered the state of her soul set down in ink. By Nancy Horan Mind Found Peace Ink Discovered

But how do I get to having to write a book? ... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell! By Robert Musil Book Write Inkwell Mother Bore

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. By Erin Morgenstern Ink Happening Lowprofile Lowresolution Dreamers

All words are written in the same ink,'flower' and 'power,' say, are much the same,and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood'all over the page, the paper would not be stainednow would I bleed. By Philippe Jaccottet Blood Flower Power Ink Write

The whole passage was underlined in bleeding, water-soaked black ink. But there was another ink, this one a crisp blue, post-flood, and an arrow led from "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast. By John Green Straight Fast Ink Bleeding Watersoaked

Yet the ink on the page was ancient, faded. (...) Fresh iron-gall ink was as black as Beelzebub's beards. By Karen Maitland Faded Ancient Page Ink Beelzebub

A good tattoo always has a story that runs deeper than the skin, and Inked tells that story. By Tara Dakides Inked Skin Story Good Tattoo

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually. By David Hockney Photographic Paint Problem Dyes Printing

Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown. By Neil Postman Printing Forever Links Present Unknown

The itch of scribbling. By Juvenal Scribbling Itch

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable By Alfred Lansing Writing Unprintable Great Opinions Afraid

I would write my tears, weeping out my pain - I would empty my veins for ink. By Muse Tears Weeping Pain Ink Write

Dipping a cockroach in ink and having it scamper around the page would have left more legible traces to the average reader. By Colin Cotterill Dipping Reader Cockroach Ink Scamper

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. By Dale Dauten Pen Called Printer Hooked Brain

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there. By J.r. Ward Pages Book Unopened Alters Ink

In India ink your writing is lovely, but not as lovely as your hand - it is your hand - I know your hand - it fits so well in mine ... By John Geddes Hand India Lovely Mine Ink