Quotes & Sayings About Writing Headlines

I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement. — David Ogilvy

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create. — Mark Cuban

I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me. — Madonna Ciccone

After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites. — Mallory Ortberg

The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest — Claude C. Hopkins

Jennifer to Beth I don't know. Writing headlines, I guess. Reading the same stories over and over to make sure some idiot reporter didn't use "they're" when he should have used "their." Changing "which"es to "that"s. Arguing with someone about sequence of tenses. What on earth is sequence of tenses? It's top-secret copy editor stuff. — Rainbow Rowell

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives. — Bill Walsh

Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad. — Vince Staples