Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description. Tim Ingold.

'For we are made of lines. We are not only referring to lines of writing. Lines of writing conjugate with other lines, life lines, lines of luck or misfortune, lines productive of the variation of the line of writing itself, lines that are between the lines of writing.'

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2004 [1980]: 215)

'Drawing is fundamental to being human – as fundamental as are walking and talking. For whenever we walk or talk we gesture with our bodies, and insofar as these gestures leave traces or trails, on the ground or some other surface, lines have been, or are being, drawn.' (Part V Drawing making writing P. 177)

'It seems that an exhaustive division between the visual image and the written text has squeezed drawing out from most fields of contemporary endeavour. Why draw, indeed? If your purpose is to describe or explain, you can do it better with words. If your purpose is to represent, illustrate or display, you can do it more quickly and accurately by photographic means. (Part V Drawing making writing P. 177)

What about drawing with words? Creating patterns and lines that encompass words?