Writing quotes

“This book will change how people write.”
Bob Balaban - William Shawn

“- George: I'm just beginning to think that space oats isn't the answer.
- Marion: Well, maybe you weren't meant to write agricultural space tragedies.”

Martin Hynes - George
Lisa Jakub - Marion

“Cuz it's real difficult in life to get things the way you want them. When I'm writing it's easy. But there's a fly in the ointment. I have no... talent.”
Kevin Corrigan - JJ Lask

“The world intrudes in my brain daily.”
Eric Bogosian

“Your aunt is a very lucky woman Angelica. She has two lives. The life she is living, and the book she is writing.”

Miranda Richardson - Vanessa Bell

“I loved acting, and then acting led to writing, and writing led to directing.”
Tom McCarthy

“- William Schwenck Gilbert: Every theatrical performance is a contrivance by its very nature.
- Arthur Sullivan: Yes, but this piece consists entirely of an artificial and implausible situation.
- William Schwenck Gilbert: If you wish to write a grand opera about a prostitute, dying of consumption in a garret, I suggest you contact Mr. Ibsen in...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jim Broadbent - William Schwenck Gilbert
Allan Corduner - Arthur Sullivan

“Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.”
Kenneth Williams

“Many writers do everything in their power to insulate themselves from the common man, from where they live, from where they trade, from where they fight and love and converse and... and... so naturally their work suffers and regresses into empty formalism.”
John Turturro - Barton Fink

“- Pete Curtis: That's bullshit!
- Wally O'Sullivan: The worrying thing is, it's well-written bullshit, and it's right here in my paper... I must confess, Hamilton, that I probably would have infused it with a little more skepticism, but bitter resentment won't prevent me from admitting it was a good piece. Well done.”

Michael Murphy - Pete Curtis
Noel Ferrier - Wally O'Sullivan

“- Thomasin: What will you from me?
- Black Phillip: Dost thou see a book before thee?... Remove thy shift.
- Thomasin: I cannot write my name.
- Black Phillip: I will guide thy hand.”
Anya Taylor-Joy - Thomasin
Wahab Chaudhry - Black Phillip

“Let's just go back, and we can write a nice little, boring thesis regurgitating all the usual crap about urban legend. We've got a real shot here, Bernadette. An entire community starts attributing the daily horrors of their lives to a mythical figure.”

Virginia Madsen - Helen Lyle

“I decided to keep a journal and write about our experiences in the Marine Corps. Maybe I can get it published someday, that is if anyway wants to read about what happens to a bunch of guys they're gonna send to Vietnam.”
James Canning - Alvin Foster

“I never write for money. I only act for money.”
Robert Shaw

“What I try to achieve in acting - flamboyance - would be self-indulgence if I tried it as a writer.”
Robert Shaw

“I record what people do and I find what moves them, what scares them and I write that down. That way they're the ones telling the story and you know what? Those kinds of pieces can win Pulitzer's too.”
Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass

“That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance. ”
Ian McDiarmid

“- Sheldon Flender: I have never had a play produced. That's right. And I've written one play a year for the past twenty years.
- David Shayne: Yes, but that's because you're a genius. And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent. Means you're a genius.”
Rob Reiner - Sheldon Flender
John Cusack - David Shayne

“Write. In my religion we're taught that every living thing, every leaf, every bird, is only alive because it contains the secret word for life. That's the only difference between us and a lump of clay. A word. Words are life, Liesel.”

Ben Schnetzer - Max Vandenburg

“I won't write, but I'll remember.”

Vladimir Sokoloff - Paul Cezanne

“- Clive Rooney: You've had a huge success with this romance novel of yours. What'd you do? Pulling over at truck stops, jotting it down on paper napkins?
- Jack Willis: Yeah, pretty much, I was, actually.”
Adam Ray - Clive Rooney
Hugh Jackman - Jack Willis

“- Rain: Isn't it beneath you as a mature thinker, I mean, to allow your lead character to waste so much of this emotional energy obsessing over this psychotic relationship with a woman that you fantasize as powerfully sexual and inspired when, in fact, she was pitifully sick?
- Gabe: Look, let's stop this right now because I don't need a lecture...” (continue)(continue reading)
Juliette Lewis - Rain
Woody Allen - Gabe Roth

“- Zach: What have you got against my typewriter?
- Alex: You used to write on it. Books and plays and movies. Once, once you wrote me a poem on our 2nd anniversary and gave it to me. And you were happy. You exorcised your demons with credible thoughts and good words on that typewriter, and your talent turned me on. I really thought we had a...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Ritter - Zach
Alyson Reed - Alex

“- Terry Crabtree: Naturally you have copies.
- Prof. Grady Tripp: I have an alternate version of the first chapter.”

Robert Downey Jr. - Terry Crabtree
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“- Michael McDougal: What's with all the grunt work? I'm a columnist.
- Henry Hackett: You're not a columnist. You're a reporter who writes long.”
Randy Quaid - Michael McDougal
Michael Keaton - Henry Hackett