“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”

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

“Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.”

“The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.”

“You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you.”

“That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.”

“Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.”

“A match as a pen
Blood on the floor as ink
The forgotten gauze cover as paper
But what should I write?
I might just manage my address.
This ink is strange; it clots.
I write you from a prison
in Greece.”

“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.”

“Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.”