Express Quote by David Droga

Most copywriters are like engines. They take a while to warm up to get to the point.

— Drayton Bird

The copywriter uses words as tools to persuade and motivate an audience. You persuade your readers that you have something valuable to offer; you…

— Richard Bayan

“Copywriters are salespeople whose job is to convince people to buy products.”

— Robert W. Bly

“Grade your performance as a copywriter on sales generated by your copy, not on originality.”

— Robert W. Bly

Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write,…

— Bruce Robinson

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

— Stanley Fish

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write…

— Louis Menand