Copywriter Quotes

I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.

My rhetoric degree ended up being very helpful in advertising. I got an internship and then figured I will be a copywriter; that will be my path.

My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.

When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.

When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big ideas

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily.