“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 know I drink a lot, I know I do because I'm a writer and that's what I do, I drink. I'm not like those people out there, I can control myself!”
Sandra Bullock - Gwen Cummings

“- Frederick: I'll just have a drink.
- Renata: Right! Drink yourself unconcious. That's the sort of writer's cliche you've never had trouble adjusting to.”
Richard Jordan - Frederick
Diane Keaton - Renata

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

Claude Rains - Dr. Jaquith

“Most of us keep that inner-being lock up, hidden away. A fiction writer doesn't have to do that. He doesn't have to hide it. He doesn't have to keep it from anything. He can let it out, bring it out into the open. Let it live, let it breathe.”

Timothy Hutton - Thad Beaumont