Acquire Quote by Richard Bayan

People who want to express themselves effectively can learn a lot from the hard-won concision of the copywriter.

— David Droga

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

— Drayton Bird

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott

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

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

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it…

— Paul Theroux

Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the…

— Richard North Patterson

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

— Steven Pinker

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the…

— Nick Blaemire

Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think…

— Susan Sontag