Writers quotes

“- Robert Stansfield: You're not a writer, Fred.
- Fred Blake: You even said I have a style of my own.
- Robert Stansfield: You're just a mean son-of-a-bitch that managed to save his own ass.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Robert Stansfield
Robert De Niro - Fred Blake

“- Frank Ginsberg: Do you know who Marcel Proust is?
- Dwayne: He's the guy you teach.
- Frank Ginsberg: Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare.”
Steve Carrell - Frank Ginsberg
Paul Dano - Dwayne

“- Karen Eiffel: Excuse me, where are the dying people? Most of these people are sick or injured. Is there any way to see the people who aren't going to get better? I'd like to see the dead-for-sure ones.
- Head ER Nurse: I'm sorry, are you suffering from anything?
- Karen Eiffel: Just writer's block.”
Emma Thompson - Karen Eiffel
Cheryl Lynn Bruce - Head ER Nurse

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.”
Christopher Hampton

“My name is Peter Fallow. I'm a writer. But you know that already. Unless you haven't read a newspaper or seen the television in the last few months, you know exactly who I am. I am the man of the moment. Hero of the evening. Me and a little book I happened to write.”
Bruce Willis - Peter Fallow

“- Dave Jennings: Teaching is just a way to pay the bills until I finish my novel.
- Donald Schoenstein: How long you been workin' on it?
- Dave Jennings: Four and a half years.
- Larry Kroger: It must be very good.
- Dave Jennings: It's a piece of shit. Would anyone like to smoke some pot?”
Donald Sutherland - Dave Jennings
Peter Riegert - Donald Schoenstein
Tom Hulce - Larry Kroger

“- Coulmier: An innocent child is dead.
- The Marquis de Sade: So many authors are denied the gratification of a concrete response to their work. I am blessed.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Coulmier
Geoffrey Rush - The Marquis de Sade

“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

“- Four Leaf Tayback - Vietnam Crew: I wrote the book as a tribute! I'm a patriot!
- Cody - Vietnam Crew: Yeah, you're the Milli Vanilli of patriots, okay? You lied about fighting in the Vietnam War. It's like... it's like punching the American Flag in the face goddammit! God, to think I believed you!
- Four Leaf Tayback - Vietnam Crew: Writers...” (continue)(continue reading)

Nick Nolte - Four Leaf Tayback - Vietnam Crew
Danny McBride - Cody - Vietnam Crew

“You see that guy? That was me not so long ago. What kind of guy without a drug or alcohol problem looks this way? Only a writer. Strangely enough nobody believed that I actually had a book contract.”

Bradley Cooper - Eddie Morra

“- Clifford Irving: Bumped by this adolescent coffee boy. My lit professor at Cornell compared me to Hemingway!
The middle of my life is at hand, and I don't have a couch.
- Dick Suskind: Think about this: Henry Miller was 38-years-old, unpublished. His wife left him for a lesbian.
- Clifford Irving: You're kind to tell me that, Dick. You're a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Tiffany Gere - Clifford Irving
Alfred Molina - Dick Suskind

“- Gilderoy Lockhart: Books can be misleading...
- Harry Potter: You wrote them!
- Gilderoy Lockhart: My dear boy, do use your common sense! My books wouldn't have sold half as well if people didn't think I'd done all those things!”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Gilderoy Lockhart
Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter

“When people ask me if all this was true, well, like I say, if you're looking for facts, pick up the history book - just be sure to check who wrote it.”

Danny Huston - Orson Welles

“I don't care if your granny is on fire. This is Oprah! She farts on a book and it magically sells a million copies.”
Amy Poehler - Maggie

“- Ben Geisler: Look, are you confused? You need guidance? Talk to another writer.
- Barton Fink: Who?
- Ben Geisler: Jesus, throw a rock in here, you'll hit one. And do me a favor, Fink: Throw it hard.”
Tony Shalhoub - Ben Geisler
John Turturro - Barton Fink

“- Darius: Who's Martha Stewart?
- Sterling: She writes picture books about gracious living. Martha says that nothing else matters if you can do a nice dried floral arrangement. I worship her.”
Bryan Batt - Darius
Sir Patrick Stewart - Sterling

“Please, tell me you're not one of Toulouse's so talented, charmingly bohemian, tragically impoverished writers.”

Nicole Kidman - Satine

“I'm sorry, I don't consider the guy who did the Spiderman comics a serious writer.”
Chloë Sevigny - Alice

“There are no trashy writers, only trashy readers.”
Tom Conti - Gowan McGland

“You're, you're - you're the goddamn thing. You're, you're. I can't describe you... uhh, I don't, I don't write that kind of shit, I write... You know, the people who write, who write the real books, the love books, and the poems, and even those stupid little fucking novels with the hunky assholes on the cover...”

Billy Crudup - Henry

“- The Chief Clerk: Kafka... I understand you fancy yourself as a writer.
- Kafka: In a small way.
- The Chief Clerk: You should find a more... athletic hobby. Put some color in your cheeks.”
Alec Guinness - The Chief Clerk
Jeremy Irons - Kafka

“- 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

Sitting there at that moment I thought of something else Shakespeare said. He said: "Hey, life is pretty stupid, with lots of hubbub to keep you busy, but really not amounting to much”. Of course I'm paraphrasing: "Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”.
Steve Martin - Harris K. Telemacher

“It has to be a playwright who writes thrillers because, I don't know, Arthur Miller probably has old sample cases hanging on the wall.”
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson

“You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?”
Kate Winslet - Madeleine