Writers quotes

“- Josie Geller: That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry...” (continue)(continue reading)
Drew Barrymore - Josie Geller
Octavia Spencer - Cynthia

“All writers are vampires.”
James Gandolfini

“- Seth: What's that like? What's it taste like? Describe it like Hemingway.
- Dr. Maggie Rice: Well, it tastes like a pear. You don't know what a pear tastes like?
- Seth: I don't know what a pear tastes like to you.
- Dr. Maggie Rice: Sweet, juicy, soft on your tongue, grainy like a sugary sand that dissolves in your mouth. How's that?
- Seth:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nicolas Cage - Seth
Meg Ryan - Dr. Maggie Rice

“I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here.”
Tim Robbins - Griffin Mill

“Writers will go anywhere where there is a free drink. I'm not so sure about thinkers.”
James Lance - Milo North

“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“It’s written by some rich guy about some rich guy and I guess we’re supposed to feel bad for him because he’s obsessed with the only girl he can’t have.”
Alycia Pascual-Pena - Lucy

“John Houseman-All I am saying is, no one can write like that.
Herman Mankiewicz-But I can write like that, Houseman. I have. The narrative is one big circle, like a cinnamon roll. Not a straight line pointing to the nearest exit. You cannot capture a man’s entire life in two hours. All you can hope is to leave the impression of one.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Herman Mankiewicz
Sam Troughton - John Houseman

John Houseman-The story is so scattered, I’m afraid one will need a road map.
Herman Mankiewicz-You mean it’s a mess.
John Houseman-Would you consider simplifying?
Herman Mankiewicz-As Pascal once said, “If only I’d had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Herman Mankiewicz
Sam Troughton - John Houseman

“Marion Davies-Pops, this is Herman Mankiewicz, but we have to call him Mank.
William Randolph Hearst-Mankiewicz? Herman Mankiewicz. New York playwright and drama critic?
Herman Mankiewicz-Turned humble screenwriter, Mr. Hearst.
William Randolph Hearst-Why, no need to be humble, Mr. Mankiewicz. Pictures that talk are the future. They’re going to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Amanda Seyfried - Marion Davies
Charles Dance - William Randolph Hearst
Gary Leonard Oldman - Herman Mankiewicz

“- Javed: Dad, I want to be a writer.
- Malik: Writing isn't a job.
- Javed: It can be!
- Malik: Name me one Pakistani writer. Just one!”
Viveik Kalra - Javed
Kulvinder Ghir - Malik (Father)

“- Elaine Mozell: Don't ever think that you can get their attention.
- Young Joan: Whose?
- Elaine Mozell: The men. Who write the reviews. Who run the publishing houses. Who edit the magazines. The ones who decide who gets to be taken seriously, who gets to be put up on a pedestal for the rest of their lives.”
Elizabeth McGovern - Elaine Mozell
Annie Starke - Young Joan

“- Young Joan: A writer has to write.
- Elaine Mozell: A writer has to be read, honey.”
Annie Starke - Young Joan
Elizabeth McGovern - Elaine Mozell

“The public can't stomach boldprose from a woman.”
Elizabeth McGovern - Elaine Mozell

“There's nothing more dangerous than a writer whose feelings have been hurt.”
Glenn Close - Joan Castleman

“- Helen St. James: There must be a reason why you drink, Don? The right doctor could find it.
- Don Birnam: Look, I'm way ahead of the right doctor. I know the reason. The reason is me - what I am. Or, rather, what I'm not. What I wanted to become and didn't.
- Helen St. James: What is it you want to be so much that you're not?
- Don Birnam: A...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jane Wyman - Helen St. James
Ray Milland - Don Birnam

“The best way to get started as a writer is to start writing.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - William Shakespeare

“Do you want to be a writer, and speak to others and for others? Speak first for yourself. Search within. Consider the contents of your own soul. Your humanity. And if you're honest with yourself, then whatever you write, all is true.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - William Shakespeare

“Used to be, you had to have talent to get published. Now you just have to shoot people.”

Woody Harrelson - Maney Gault

“- Sarbojaya Ray: You'll educate the boy, give him his sacred thread, teach him to worship the gods. Durga will find a good husband. Two meals a day, new clothes twice a year - what more could we want?
- Harihar Ray: We'll have all that and more. My ancestors were writers, after all. They left a legacy that can't be ignored. Just wait two years....” (continue)(continue reading)
Karuna Bannerjee - Sarbojaya Ray
Kanu Bannerjee - Harihar Ray

“- NewspaperEditor: I'm not looking for writers. I'm looking for ideas. Ideas with heart. If you pitch me a... a great idea with heart, you get to write it. That's the wonderful world of freelance.
- Parker Concorde: Well, actually, I'm working on this... psychic hotline article.
- NewspaperEditor: Good. How's it end?
- Parker Concorde: How...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joey Travolta - Newspaper Editor
Johnathon Schaech - Parker Concorde

“Any good writer, to write a woman, must be able to have some woman in him.”
Richard Brooks

“Agatha Christie is so deadly serious in English... but in French, she's so delightfully funny! Je m'apelle Hercule Poirot, un detective. Her murders are so polite!”
Glenda May Jackson - Stevie

“- 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

“They were, as John always described them, penny dreadfuls with an elevated prose style.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes