#rite

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#bathed #comfortably #down #dressed #i

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#family #lies #mine #never #own

I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#consumer #create #cultures #i #i am

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising agencies #agencies #business #cannot #deaf

Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#am #better #drink #far #find

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#day #every #every day #grammar #i

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that. ↗

— Ben Okri

#either #even #felt #i #important

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#columns #editorial #expressed #freedom #given

My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed. ↗

— John Krasinski

#doing #fantasy #favorite #football #friends

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. ↗

— Ben Okri

#absolutely #absolutely not #best #reader #us