Writing quotes

“- Harold Hutchins: Separate classes lead to separate lives, which inevitably leads to robots.
- George Beard: Wait, what? Why are there robots at the mall?
- Harold Hutchins: Cuz it's the future. The future always has robots.
- George Beard: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Why are the robots shooting other robots? Aren't they supposed to be friends?
- Harold...” (continue)(continue reading)
Thomas Middleditch - Harold
Kevin Hart - George

“I've been writing songs since I was a kid, but my arrangements sound like some cheesy Saturday morning cartoon or something.”
Hilary Duff - Teresa 'Terri' Fletcher

“If writings did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer.”
Vivian Wu - Nagiko

“When something is written down, does that make it true?”
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“- Peter McGowan: Maybe that's everything in writing: a catchy title.
- Debra Salhany: So is that why you decided to call your first novel 'How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog'?
- Peter McGowan: Oh, that isn't mere affectation. That's a practical guidebook full of juicy bits on suburban terrorism.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Peter McGowan
Peri Gilpin - Debra Salhany

“You don't get to rewrite what I write.”
Warren Beatty - John Reed

“Everybody asks why I started at the end and worked back to the beginning, the reason is simple, I couldn't understand the beginning until I had reached the end.”
Alison Lohman - Astrid Magnussen

“- Mrs. Connelly: Let Mr. Rose get out there and bring home the bacon. I always thought it was strange your husband staying home while you were out there providing.
- Nancy Kendricks: Well, he's a writer.
- Mrs. Connelly: Writer? The man naps more than a newborn pup. What's he writing about? Sheeps?”
Eileen Essell - Mrs. Connelly
Drew Barrymore - Nancy Kendricks

“Writers write things to give readers something to read.”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“- Bettina Barnes: Another lousy sci-fi flick. Berdine, I just can't identify with the Rat-Faced Girl from Mars.
- Berdine: Is it really that bad?
- Bettina Barnes: Honey, Lassie could fart out a better script.”
Kimberley Davies - Bettina Barnes
Danni Wheeler - Berdine

“- Newt: I'm writing a book about magical creatures.
- Tina: Like an extermination guide?
- Newt: No. A guide to help people understand why we should be protecting these creatures instead of killing them.”
Eddie Redmayne - Newt
Katherine Waterston - Tina

“There was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting. And I believe that time can come again!”
Luke Wilson - Joe Bauers

“- Wendy Darling: My unfulfilled ambition is to write a great novel in three parts about my adventures.
- Aunt Millicent: What adventures?
- Wendy Darling: I've yet to have them, but they will be perfectly thrilling.”
Rachel Hurd-Wood - Wendy Darling
Lynn Redgrave - Aunt Millicent

“I know what I wrote, I was there when I wrote it.”
John Belushi - Ernie Souchak

“I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.”
David Niven

“Most heads of studio stop reading scripts when they get their jobs and become hostage to the reports of low-paid readers, who are usually young, frustrated filmmakers.”
John Boorman

“I wrote the script for Rocky in three days. I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary. And did that ever make the bestseller list?”
Sylvester Stallone

“I'm Mickey Rubin. Poetic by nature. I harbor dreams of being a writer. A writer of truly great plays, so I can one day surprise everyone and turn out a profound masterpiece. Anyhow. Let me get to the story in which I am a character, so, be warned, as a poet, I use symbols, and as a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger-than-life...” (continue)(continue reading)

Justin Timberlake - Mickey

“I write by myself... for myself.”
Jeremy Irons - Kafka

“Just because you're going to be alone now doesn't mean the world stops turning. You'll keep writing in your notebooks and when you're grown up and you publish your first novel, I'll be first in line at that bookstore, getting an autographed copy.”

Rosie O'Donnell - Ole Golly

“People think the writer's imagination is always at work, that he's constantly inventing an endless supply of incidents and episodes; that he simply dreams up his stories out of thin air. In point of fact, the opposite is true. Once the public knows you're a writer, they bring the characters and events to you. And as long as you maintain your...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Wilkinson - Author

“It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.”
Natalie Imbruglia

“Listen to me Abbe and listen well. I've stared into the face of evil and I've lived to tell the tale and now, I beg you, for your sake, let me write it down.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Coulmier

“When you use a bird to write with, it's called tweeting.”
The Rock - Maui

“- Steve Everett: I'm writing a human-interest sidebar. Do you know what that is?
- Counter Woman at Pocum's Grocery: No, I don't think I do.
- Steve Everett: I don't think I do either.”
Clint Eastwood - Steve Everett
Linda Hoy - Counter Woman at Pocum's Grocery