Quotes about writ
writing names stories
Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name Claude C. Hopkins
writing attention stories
Whatever claim you use to get attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete Claude C. Hopkins
writing atmosphere should
The product itself should be it's own best salesman. Not the product alone, but the product plus a mental impression, and atmosphere, which you place around it Claude C. Hopkins
writing men oil
The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far Claude C. Hopkins
writing average may
The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know Claude C. Hopkins
writing dollars scarcity
Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you. Claude C. Hopkins
writing winning people
Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way Claude C. Hopkins
writing expression world
"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make Claude C. Hopkins
writing unique style
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject Claude C. Hopkins
writing people trying
Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause Claude C. Hopkins
writing light variation
Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is. Claude Debussy
writing biographies ill
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it! Clara Barton
writing society world
There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing Claude Levi-Strauss
writing class cities
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment. Claude Levi-Strauss
writing starting
I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how. Daniel Pinkwater
writing way
Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it. Daniel Pinkwater
writing trying occupation
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one. Daniel Pinkwater
writing editors names
When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored names in present-day writing-and it's not going to be accepted unless it's as good as theirs. (And it'll probably have to be better.) Daniel Quinn
writing expression people
Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How can you make a great - or even an adequate - bouillabaisse if you've never had any? If you don't really understand why people read mysteries - or romances or literary novels or thrillers or whatever - then there's no way in the world you're going to write one that anyone wants to publish. This is the meaning of the well-known expression "Write what you know." Daniel Quinn
writing thinking two
For me, you go to university to meet lots of different people from different backgrounds. I think that's one of the most important things you get there. And you also get some sense of direction regarding what you want to do when you leave. I sort of know what I want to do in my life - I want to act and ultimately I'd like to write. And in terms of meeting people from different backgrounds, that's what you get on a film set. So the two most valuable things that university would have given me I've sort of achieved by being on a film set. Daniel Radcliffe
writing thinking years
I want to write and direct, but I don't think if I did it for 100 years I would ever come close to putting something out there that gives a feeling of all-encompassing and joyous. Daniel Radcliffe
writing long challenges
I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something! Daniel Radcliffe
writing two people
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it. Daniel Radcliffe
writing pride giving
Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that." But once I give it to someone to make, I can disassociate with it entirely and not worry that my vision isn't being represented, because I understand fully that that's not how it works. Daniel Clowes
writing thinking effort
Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around. I can take great delight in writing 40 pages, then just pressing delete and getting rid of it and not thinking about it ever again. Whereas in comics, if I had put that kind of effort into it, I couldn't go on. Daniel Clowes
writing trying mood
I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing. Daniel Clowes
writing trying use
I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose. Dan Harmon
writing years done
The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy. Dan Harmon
writing las-vegas lucky
TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie. Dan Harmon
writing rocks gold
I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing. Dan Harmon
writing years long
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time. Damon Albarn
writing good-writing
You have to go where the good writing is. Damian Lewis
writing people
I love writing about people on the road. Cynthia Kadohata