Writers quotes

“- Andrew Strieber: Why are we sad?
- Anne Strieber: Andy, what a thing to say.
- Andrew Strieber: Well, dad's sad.
- Whitley Strieber: This new book, I'm under a lot of pressure.”
Joel Carlson - Andrew Strieber
Lindsay Crouse - Anne Strieber
Christopher Walken - Whitley Strieber

“- Gordie: Fuck writing, I don't want to be a writer. It's stupid. It's a stupid waste of time.
- Chris: That's your dad talking.
- Gordie: Bullshit.
- Chris: Bull true.”
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers

“I'm not an agent, I just write books for the CIA.”
Alec Baldwin - Jack Ryan

“- Miles: I'm not a writer, I'm a middle school English teacher. Well, the world doesn't give a shit what I have to say. I'm unnecessary. Ha! I'm so insignificant I can't even kill myself.
- Jack: Miles, what the hell is that supposed to mean?
- Miles: Come on, man. You know. Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul Giamatti - Miles
Thomas Haden Church - Jack

Elves aren't that short you know. That's just a stupid myth created by that "Elves and the Shoemaker" story. Do I look small enough to fit in a shoe? Stinkin' Grimm Brothers!
Aidan McArdle - Slannen

“- Viola De Lesseps: I loved a writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.
- Will Shakespeare: I was the more deceived.
- Viola De Lesseps: Yes, you were deceived, for I did not know how much I loved you.”
Gwyneth Paltrow - Viola De Lesseps
Joseph Fiennes - Will Shakespeare

“I have all those books to write, whatever they are. Fiction, I hope!”
Malcom McDowell - H.G. Wells

“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

“- Perry White: Superman saves a man from drowning on 3rd Avenue this morning while you stand there watching the whole thing and you don't even bring me one picture.
- Jimmy Olsen: Chief, I didn't have my camera with me.
- Perry White: A photographer eats with his camera! A photographer sleeps with his camera!
- Lois Lane: I'm glad I'm a writer.”
Jackie Cooper - Perry White
Marc McClure - Jimmy Olsen
Margot Kidder - Lois Lane

“I'm just a writer. I don't know what to do to show you how much I love you. I only have words. That's all I have.”

Luke Wilson - Alex Sheldon

- Slannen: You know, I hope you don't mind me saying this, but you're much prettier than I would've expected.
- Brumhilda: I know. Giants are supposed to be big, ugly and mean. It's because of stories like "Jack and the Beanstalk". Stinking Grimm Brothers!
Aidan McArdle - Slannen
Heidi Klum - Brumhilda

“How am I going to become a writer if I don't know how to suffer?”
Jonathan Silverman - Eugene Morris Jerome

“- Michael Fitzsimmons: Gilfond's okay, except that he thinks Hemingway is great literature.
- Peggy Sue: And you don't?
- Michael Fitzsimmons: He's a fisherman. The most overrated writer of the century. I mean, man he is the perfect American Author - fat, violent, drunk.”
Kevin J. O'Connor - Michael Fitzsimmons
Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue

“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

“I know I drink a lot, I know I do because I'm a writer and that's what I do, I drink. I'm not like those people out there, I can control myself!”
Sandra Bullock - Gwen Cummings

- George Washington Duke: It's like your Mark Twain once said "Virtue has never been as respectable as money”.
- Paulie: Who's Twain?
- Rocky Balboa: He was a painter.
Richard Gant - George Washington Duke
Burt Young - Paulie

“- Welfare Officer: A writer. You're a writer?
- Danny: I'm a writer.
- Welfare Officer: I worked at Burger King for three years before getting this job. I've got an arts degree. If we get you a job that says you lick toilet bowls, then that's what you do, you lick toilet bowls. A writer. Jesus.”
Noah Taylor - Danny

“We call ourselves writers! All we do is sit around talking about baseball and getting drunk a lot. You call that writing?”

Robert Wuhl - Al Stump

“- Daniel: They are teaching you existentialism?
- Lauren: Heidegger isn't really an existentialist.
- Daniel: He claims he isn't. His writing says he is.”
Thelonious Bernard - Daniel
Diane Lane - Lauren

“People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.”
Dame Judi Dench - Iris Murdoch

“You certainly have a way with words, Pete. No wonder you're a writer.”
Timothy Spall - Hodkins

“I tried writing again. Nothing came out that didn't sound bitter and cynical. And there's nothing worse than a writer who doesn't have anything to say.”
Woody Harrelson - Harry Barber

“I don't put much faith in scientific terms. I leave that to the fakers and the writers of books.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Jaquith

“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

“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