Advertising Copy Quotes

#1. The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Nadine Gordimer

#2. Copywriting probably did make me a commercial writer. Nobody wants to read advertising copy, so you have to keep it punchy; you almost have trick them into reading it. You have to make every sentence work.

Liane Moriarty

#3. The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

Louis Kronenberger

#4. I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

Walter Dean Myers

#5. The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy.

Lewis H. Lapham

#6. People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!

Mary Gordon

#7. Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.

Roy H. Williams

#8. American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm

Stephen King

#9. I could get a job in an advertising agency. I'll write copy telling people to eat more cornflakes and smoke more and more cigarettes and buy more refrigerators and automobiles, until they explode with happiness.

Sloan Wilson

#10. Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.

Sarah Dessen

#11. He's coming to hate the gratitude of women. It is like being fawned on by rabbits, or like being covered with syrup: you can't get it off.

Margaret Atwood

#12. I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

Bruce Barton

#13. I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.

Liz W. Garcia

#14. Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Pythagoras

#15. When I applied for a handicap parking pass, they wouldn't take maleness as a medical condition.

Katie Graykowski

#16. When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

V.S. Naipaul

#17. The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

Kate Williams

#18. Motivation is like bathing. You've got to do it every single day.

Zig Ziglar

#19. You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.

Andrea Gibson

#20. When you're young you really think you're angry for reasons and causes. As you get older, you realize you might just be angry.

Marc Maron

#21. Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#22. One can't be a killer every moment of one's life. Some humanity is going to show itself now and then, some hunger for normality, no matter what you do.

Anne Rice

#23. On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

David Ogilvy

#24. If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Benjamin Franklin