“- Ray Kinsella: My name's Ray Kinsella. You used my father's name in one of your stories: John Kinsella.
- Terence Mann: You're seeing a whole team of psychiatrists, aren't you?”

Kevin Costner - Ray Kinsella
James Earl Jones - Terence Mann

“He's not that famous a writer that he can afford to go nuts.”
Debbie Reynolds - Beatrice Henderson

“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

“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