Writing quotes

“- Peter's News Editor: West, keep the British accent out of your prose. Don't take advantage of the fact that your uncle owns the paper.
- Peter West: As if I would.”
Lucio Fulci - Peter's News Editor
Ian McCulloch - Peter West

“- George Sand: The style's a bit precious. Mind if I rewrite it?
- Alfred De Musset: Not at all. We'll have a horse sent in.”

Judy Davis - George Sand
Mandy Patinkin - Alfred De Musset

“- Jack Gable: Laura is more than a body.
- Cable Man: Laura?
- Jack Gable: Laura Claybourne, she plays Rachel.
- Cable Man: Sorry, you must really follow this shit.
- Jack Gable: No, I write this shit.”

John Candy - Jack Gable
Mark Boone Junior - Cable Man

“- Sherlock Holmes: How can I be expected to maintain the character when you belittle me in front of those hooligans?
- Dr. Watson: Character? Are we talking about the same man who once declared with total conviction that the late Colonel Howard had been bludgeoned to death with a blunt excrement?
- Sherlock Holmes: Is it my fault you have such...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes
Ben Kingsley - Dr. Watson

“I want to learn everything I can, and I write down everything I see. Golly says if I want to be a writer someday, I better start now, and that is why I am a spy.”
Michelle Trachtenberg - Harriet M. Welsch

“Whenever I wondered what Sara saw in me, and I wondered more than once, I always came back to the fact that she loved to read. She read everything every spare moment. She was a junkie for the printed word. And lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice.”
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“- Peggy Sue: We had one glorious night together, someday you'll remember and write about it.
- Michael Fitzsimmons: Yeah, I can dig that. Bittersweet perfection. Dogs of lust on leashes of memory.”
Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue
Kevin J. O'Connor - Michael Fitzsimmons

“I understood writing could be dangerous. I didn't realize the danger came from the machinery.”
Peter Weller - Bill Lee

“The life of a playwright is tough. It's not easy as some people seem to think. You work hard writing plays and nobody puts them on. You take up other lines of work to try to make a living. You became an actor and people don't hire you. So, you just spend your days doing the errands of your trade.”
Wallace Shawn - Wallace Shawn

“I have heard rumors to the effect that there are actually people who enjoy writing. Can this be true? I loathe it. All that work and at the end of it some slim volume. What is the point? I ask myself.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“I'm through with nightmare scripts! I'm starting to work on The Great Amurkian Novel! Pulitzer Prize, here I come!”
James Cranna - Scuzzbopper