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10 Tips on Writing from David Ogilvy

Brain Pickings 2012

“Never write more than two pages on any subject.”

On September 7th, 1982, Ogilvy sent the following internal memo to all agency employees, titled “How to Write” and found in the 1986 gem The Unpublished David Ogilvy (public library)...

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