Ink Quotes

I never counted how many tattoos I have, but I started getting them at a really young age, so most of my big ones are cover-ups.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

I have multiple tattoos.

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

I'm not a painter by any stretch of the imagination; I'm a dyed-in-the-wool traditional illustrator, and I begin with black and white. If I need colour, I add it over the top. There's a calligraphic element to it... it's about the texture of lines on the page.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

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

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

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.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

The other day, I got a henna tattoo that says "Forever."

If you like how people look when they're all covered in tattoos, then you should be covered in tattoos.

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

That's sort of the amazing thing about writing something down and then having it printed and published - it's frozen. It's there. It's set. It's in ink. It's done. Nothing changes it.

I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.

I have a great appreciation for body art.

An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.

I think it would be the biggest regret of mine - getting anything tattooed.

I have a Superman tattoo on my right arm.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

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.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat