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

Horace Walpole
dots misery ink

TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader.

Howard Gordon
tv-shows ink media

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Hosea Ballou
ink white character
I am a galley slave to pen and ink. by Honore de Balzac

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

Honore de Balzac
slave ink writing
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. by Horace Walpole

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

Horace Walpole
cold ink writing

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.

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
magic ink bottles

The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.

Isamu Noguchi
difficult-and-easy ink lying

When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

Jack Gantos
ink black names

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

J. D. Salinger
pockets ink brother
Put down the pen someone else gave you.  by Jack Kerouac

Put down the pen someone else gave you.

Jack Kerouac
life-worth-living living-on ink

Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.

Jacob M. Appel
ink dying guarantees

It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the World, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the World, and it is yours to save or lose.

James A. Owen
ink boys blood

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

James Branch Cabell
escaping ink men

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

James M. Barrie
pockets ink book
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclinat... by James Joyce

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

James Joyce
ink tables writing
I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide an... by James Robertson

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

James Robertson
ink flow paper

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

James M. Barrie
ink daughter years
At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is wr... by Jane Hirshfield

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

Jane Hirshfield
ink moments life-is
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every t... by Janet Flanner

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

Janet Flanner
week ink two
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it migh... by Jasper Fforde

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

Jasper Fforde
odor ink real
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