Inky quotes

[Doc Dan]

Any fountain pen or fountain pen ink quotes, post here.

[Doc Dan]

"I [refill] my pen [with] the blackest [ink], because I'm not afraid of falling into my ink". Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Doc Dan]

Don't think it, ink it. -- Mark Victor Hansen

[AmandaW]

"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." Mark Twain

[Doc Dan]

Good one!

[Chris1]

Indeed, Mr Twain was the master of the quick quip - I like that one.

[Estycollector]

"The faintest ink is better than the strongest memory" a Chinese Proverb and one a manager used to use to encourage note taking. 

[TgeekB]

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Graham Greene

[Doc Dan]

“The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.”  C. S. Forester

[sandy101]

"A drop of ink may make a million think." Lord Byron - Don Juan 

[Karmachanic]

"Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing.  Ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I found out long ago."

 

C.S. Lewis