“I'm a writer, you monsters! I create! I create for a living! I'm a creator! I am a creator!”
John Turturro - Barton Fink

“Hollywood doesn't want writers, so much as secretaries with a flare for dialogue. If you want to be happy in Hollywood, be a cinematographer. Nobody knows what you're doing, so they can't screw with you.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Peter McGowan

“- Welfare Officer: A writer. You're a writer?
- Danny: I'm a writer.
- Welfare Officer: I worked at Burger King for three years before getting this job. I've got an arts degree. If we get you a job that says you lick toilet bowls, then that's what you do, you lick toilet bowls. A writer. Jesus.”
Noah Taylor - Danny

“I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives. One time I secretly wanted to be a writer.”
Cary Grant - C. K. Dexter Haven

“I don't put much faith in scientific terms. I leave that to the fakers and the writers of books.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Jaquith