Writers quotes

“Just remember this. All agents defect, and all resisters sell out. That's the sad truth, Bill. And a writer? A writer lives the sad truth like anyone else. The only difference is, he files a report on it.”
Peter Boretski - Exterminator #2

“- 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

“What is it about Italy that makes lady novelists reach such summits of absurdity?”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Cecil Vyse

“All that was left was the man and the devil... trapped in the writer's creation.”
Christopher Soren Kelly - The Mechanic

“- Julia: It's discouraged for campaigns to interact. For instance, if one speechwriter were to date another, they might reveal something crucial about the campaign. Some campaigns have spies for just this purpose, whose job it is to follow the speechwriter, and to seduce her...
- Kevin: Or him...
- Julia: Into revealing her secrets.”
Geena Davis - Julia
Michael Keaton - Kevin

“- Doris Saphron: I miss Murray, Harry.
- Harry Zimm: Yeah, I miss him, too. Hell of a good writer, you know. I should know, I discovered him. Made him what he was.
- Doris Saphron: What he was, was a hack. He couldn't get a job writing for anybody but you. I'm being honest. He was a lousy writer, but he was a good husband. I just didn't know...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bette Midler - Doris Saphron
Gene Hackman - Harry Zimm

“- Meghan: What does a post-modern romantic writer do all day?
- Gordon: Find beauty and praise it.
- Meghan: That's like the opposite of what I do.”
Jan Struther - Meghan
James Marsden - Gordon

“- Satine: I can't believe it. I'm in love. I'm in love with a young, handsome, talented duke.
- Christian: Duke?
- Satine: Not that the title's important, of course.
- Christian: I'm not a duke.
- Satine: Not a duke?
- Christian: I'm a writer.
- Satine: A writer?”
Nicole Kidman - Satine
Ewan McGregor - Christian

“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

“- Shaun: Dad, I want to become a writer.
- Bud: A writer?! What do you have to write about? You're not oppressed, you're not gay.
- Shaun: Not all writers are gay.
- Bud: Well, they are all poor. I'll tell you that.”
Colin Hanks - Shaun Brumder
John Lithgow - Bud Brumder

“- Miles: Hey, what should I wear?
- Jack: I don't know, something casual but nice. They think you're a writer.”
Paul Giamatti - Miles
Thomas Haden Church - Jack

“Romantic? Hemingway? He was an abusive, alcoholic misogynist who squandered half of his life hanging around Picasso trying to nail his leftovers.”
Julia Stiles - Katarina Stratford

“As Pushkin's doomed duelist said: let's start if you're willing.”
John Turturro - Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin

- Ben: "You're never wrong to do the right thing".
- Jules: Who said that, you?
- Ben: Yeah. But I'm pretty sure Mark Twain said it first.
Robert De Niro - Ben
Anne Hathaway - Jules

“- Zach: What have you got against my typewriter?
- Alex: You used to write on it. Books and plays and movies. Once, once you wrote me a poem on our 2nd anniversary and gave it to me. And you were happy. You exorcised your demons with credible thoughts and good words on that typewriter, and your talent turned me on. I really thought we had a...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Ritter - Zach
Alyson Reed - Alex

“Look who's here. The big Broadway success. I don't write hits. My plays are art. They're written specifically to go unproduced.”
Rob Reiner - Sheldon Flender

“You think I made your life hell? Take a look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter, Barton. I live here.”
John Goodman - Charlie Meadows

“- Stanley Gould: I have to get right to my suite. I'm the writer.
- Stuntman: So? I'm the stunt coordinator.
- Stanley Gould: So you can fall down later - I have writing that can't wait.”
Bob Hoskins - Stanley Gould

“- Youthful Anarchist: How much have you told him?
- Gabriela: He's a clerk; he knows nothing.
- Mustachioed Anarchist: Eduard said he's a writer.
- Youthful Anarchist: That could be useful.
- Female Anarchist: That could be dangerous.”

Toon Agterberg - Youthful Anarchist
Theresa Russell - Gabriela
Jan Nemejovský - Mustachioed Anarchist
Hilde Van Mieghem - Female Anarchist

“A writer's life is his work. Jack Kerouac doesn't have to kill a bull to have something to write about. I mean, man, he's out there burning, feeling, grooving on life.”
Kevin J. O'Connor - Michael Fitzsimmons

“Don't write this down, but I find Milton probably as boring as you find Milton. Mrs. Milton found him boring too. He's a little bit long-winded, he doesn't translate very well into our generation, and his jokes are terrible.”
Donald Sutherland - Dave Jennings

“I gave a few bucks to a local kid to repaint the sign, and disappear for awhile to finish the manuscripts, and wait for Cobb to die. While I waited: Ernest Hemingway blew his brains out, Getty bought Honolulu Oil, Coke came out in cans, and the brunette in the courtyard ran away with a handsome young lawyer, and on July 17, 1961, Ty Cobb died...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Wuhl - Al Stump

“I'm a good person, but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person, but a good writer. I think we'd make a good team.”

Ansel Elgort - Gus

“You're a writer, you have a gift. You should have a girlfriend who's helpful and encouraging.”
Woody Allen - David Dobel

“The devil was no puppet. And the writer would not write him, and if the writer were to trap him in this house the devil would tear the house down.”
Christopher Soren Kelly - The Mechanic