Our selection of Author's Quotes

By now you will undoubtedly have noticed the author's quotes at the top of each page.
Although their words of wisdom rarely have any direct relevance on the world of copywriting, these words of wisdom do have a bearing on the industry in a lot of cases.

Author's Quotes used throughout our site

Quote by Enrique Jardiel Poncela: "When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."

Quote by Gustave Flaubert: "An author in his work must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."

Quote by Franklin P. Adams: " Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take only a minute."

Quote by Edna Ferber: "Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death."

Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray: "There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes."

Quote by Anaïs Nin: "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

Quote by Logan Pearsall Smith: " What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers."

Quote by Baltasar Gracián: "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one."

Quote by Thomas Mann: "A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

Quote by Chateaubriand: "An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."

Quote by F. B. G. Guntherson: "The services of a good copywriter are a godsend for any small business."

Quote by Somerset Maugham: "The best style is the style you don't notice."

Quote by Anton Chekhov: "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

Quote by Mark Twain: "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."

Quote by James Michener: "I love writing.  I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."

Quote by Gene Fowler: "Writing is easy:  All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."

Quote by Francis Bacon: "Write down the thoughts of the moment.  Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."

Quote by Burton Rascoe: "What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window."

Quote by "Adlai Stevenson: "An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff."

Quote by Sinclair Lewis: "It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write."

Quote by Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith: "There's nothing to writing.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Words - so innocent and powerless as they are standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. "

Quote by Samuel Johnson: "The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new."

Quote by Jack London: " You can't wait for inspiration.  You have to go after it with a club."

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Goethe: “Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.”