“I tried writing again. Nothing came out that didn't sound bitter and cynical. And there's nothing worse than a writer who doesn't have anything to say.”
Woody Harrelson - Harry Barber

“I want to learn everything I can, and I write down everything I see. Golly says if I want to be a writer someday, I better start now, and that is why I am a spy.”
Michelle Trachtenberg - Harriet M. Welsch

“- Gordie: Fuck writing, I don't want to be a writer. It's stupid. It's a stupid waste of time.
- Chris: That's your dad talking.
- Gordie: Bullshit.
- Chris: Bull true.”
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers

“- Dave Jennings: Teaching is just a way to pay the bills until I finish my novel.
- Donald Schoenstein: How long you been workin' on it?
- Dave Jennings: Four and a half years.
- Larry Kroger: It must be very good.
- Dave Jennings: It's a piece of shit. Would anyone like to smoke some pot?”
Donald Sutherland - Dave Jennings
Peter Riegert - Donald Schoenstein
Tom Hulce - Larry Kroger

“Many writers do everything in their power to insulate themselves from the common man, from where they live, from where they trade, from where they fight and love and converse and... and... so naturally their work suffers and regresses into empty formalism.”
John Turturro - Barton Fink