The Faintest Ink Quotes

An old saying goes, “The faintest ink is better than the sharpest memory.” But that’s not true if you never go back to read what you wrote.

To be honest with you, Melville, I sometimes don’t have the faintest idea what I’m trying to say with my damned allegories. I feel as if I’m writing with invisible ink.” ... [...] Even if the world presses it by, you shall have at least one avid reader who will enjoy it immensely. And I am a special reader, you must remember: I can read between the lines on the page and I see invisible ink, as well. Nothing escapes me!

The ancient Chinese saying states, “faintest ink over sharpest memory.

The things that were needed to keep the imagination free were “all written down in this age of reason.” It was time to take the opportunity to use this imagination. All bets were off, “Fire at will.” Standing next to the message in Pulling Punches, where there was only the faintest hint of solace, the message in The Ink in the Well seemed to be that in Picasso, Cocteau, and Sartre, a home of sorts had been found that went some way to — if not answering the questions —opening the mind to give the insight possible to find the answers. The references to Sartre and Cocteau were oblique and hidden in the phrase “The blood of a poet, the ink in the well, it’s all written down in this age of reason.