“I am just trying to work out whether you're a truck driver who writes books or a writer who drives trucks.”

Angie Milliken - Ziggy Keane

“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

“- Jamal Wallace: Women will sleep with you if you write a book?
- William Forrester: Women will sleep with you if you write a bad book.”
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“- Ruby Vale: What do I know about writing? You know, I read flying manuals.
- Jack Willis: Rube, this is a trashy romance novel.
- Ruby Vale: You said it was romantic.
- Jack Willis: Whatever. Anyway, blokes aren't meant to write them.”
Claudia Karvan - Ruby Vale
Hugh Jackman - Jack Willis