“- Susan Morrow: Why are you so driven to write?
- Edward Sheffield: I guess it's a way of keeping things alive. You know, saving things that will eventually die. If I write it down, then... it'll last forever.”
Amy Adams - Susan Morrow
Jake Gyllenhaal - Edward Sheffield

“Nobody teaches a writer anything. You tell'em what you know. You tell'em to find their voice and stay with it. You tell the ones that have it to keep at it. You tell the ones that don't have it to keep at it too because that's the only way they're gonna get to where they're going.”
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“It's not about how badly you want something. It's about what you are capable of!”
Idris Elba - Chief Bogo

“You have a genuine talent for slogans. It must be like having an ear for music.”

Ernest Truex - Mr. Baxter

“The voice you hear is not my speaking voice - but my mind's voice. I have not spoken since I was six-years-old. No one knows why - not even me. My father says it is a dark talent, and the day I take it into my head to stop breathing will be my last.”

Holly Hunter - Ada