Writing quotes

“You could just write your own rules. You know, write something that's as interesting as you are.”
Ryan Gosling - Sebastian

“I write in my diary which is not the same as writing in my novel.”
Claudia Jessie - Eloise Bridgerton

“- Anchor: So, ultimately, what feels better? Seeing justice done or seeing your book, Kentucky Blood number one on the New York Times bestseller list?
- Ellison Oswalt: The justice, without question... I'd rather cut my hands off than write a book for fame or money.”
Tavis Smiley - Anchor
Ethan Hawke - Ellison Oswalt

“- Tracy: There are plenty of other ways you can provide for this family.
- Ellison Oswalt: Doing what? Teaching? Editing journalism textbooks? Don't you understand that writing is what gives my life meaning? These books are my legacy!
- Tracy: I have always supported you doing what you love, Ellison. But writing isn't the meaning of your life....” (continue)(continue reading)
Juliet Rylance - Tracy
Ethan Hawke - Ellison Oswalt

“- Mr. Link: Excuse me. Hi.
- Sir Lionel Frost: You can speak?!
- Mr. Link: Yes, and, um, I write as well. My penmanship isn’t great, but, uh, you know, opposable thumbs and fat fingers, you know.”

Zach Galifianakis - Mr. Link
Hugh Jackman - Sir Lionel Frost

“- Professor Wright: Could you write five thousand words on the influence of Norse elements in Gawain?
- J.R.R. Tolkien: Yes, absolutely. When would you like it by?
- Professor Wright: This evening.”
Sir Derek Jacobi - Professor Wright
Nicholas Hoult - J.R.R. Tolkien

“Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.”
Donald Glover

“Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people kind of forget that sometimes.”
Eva Marie Saint

“Already I know what I want to do, don't you. I want to be a journalist or something. I love to write.”
Millie Perkins - Anne Frank

“Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.”
Zoe Kazan

“- Charles Doughty-Wylie: Will you write to me?
- Gertrude Bell: Yes, I'll write to you from every post office in the desert.”
Damian Lewis - Richard Wylie
Nicole Kidman - Gertrude Bell

“- Veronika: I like your stories. I think you should write them down.
- Spud: You think?
- Veronika: Yeah. Just write them the way you say them. They're funny. I would like to read them.”
Anjela Nedyalkova - Veronika
Ewen Bremner - Spud

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

“Don't you know the finest things in the world have been written on an empty stomach.”
Lloyd Gough - Morino

“- Norma Desmond: Young man, tell me something; how long is a movie script these days? I mean how many pages?
- Joe Gillis: Depends on what it is: a Donald Duck or a Joan of Arc.”
Gloria Swanson - Norma Desmond
William M. Holden - Joe Gillis

“Writing is like drawing but with letters.”
Antonio Banderas - Salvador Mallo

“When I get home I shall write a book about this place... If I ever do get home.”
Kathryn Beaumont - Alice in Wondeland

“- Burditt: Can I give you some advice? You need to shut the fuck up.
- Molly Patel: Excuse me?
- Burditt: If you hear something you don’t agree with, you have to resist the urge to give your opinion.
- Molly Patel: I will not be marginalized by the iron fist of white privilege that pervades this work environment.
- Burditt: I am not trying...” (continue)(continue reading)
Max Casella - Burditt
Mindy Kaling - Molly Patel

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

“You must write again, Will.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Earl of Southampton

“Listen to what I'm writing now: new and original plays and poems. When word gets around, the traveling troupes will come in droves. Where else can they get new material? Original plays don't grow on trees.”
Kanu Bannerjee - Harihar Ray

“- Dr. Donald Shirley: What on God's green earth are you doing?
- Tony Lip: A letter.
- Dr. Donald Shirley: Looks more like a piecemeal ransom note.”
Mahershala Ali - Dr. Donald Shirley
Viggo Mortensen - Tony Lip

“When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.”
Paul W.S. Anderson

“- Robert Robbie Ross: I must tell you, Father, the dying man has been quite a well-known literary figure.
- Father Cuthbert Dunne: Oh, well, that's all one and the same to God, Mr Ross. He has very little time to read, what with all us sinners clogging up the road to hell.”

Edwin Thomas - Robert Robbie Ross
Tom Wilkinson - Father Cuthbert Dunne

“- Bill Stevens: What you want is a ghost writer.
- Joe Gurney: Nah no mystery stuff, just plain facts.”
James Stephenson - Bill Stevens
Humphrey Bogart - Joe Gurney