Writing quotes

“I told Watson if I ever write a story it will be to correct the million misconceptions created by his imagination.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
Romola Garai - Cassandra Mortmain

“A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.”
Colm Meaney

“In terms of the films I make, I'm just more excited about it if I've written it. It's like living in a house that you've built rather than a rental.”
Frank Whaley

“I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.”
Kate Beckinsale

“I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.”
Zooey Deschanel

“Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing.”
Steve Carrell

“Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written.”
Richard Schiff

“I write with everybody.”
Michael McKean

“He usually knows what he wants, and I guess having been a writer and a director, he knows what to shoot.”

Peter Jason

“Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.”
David Ogden Stiers

“- Stanley Gould: I have to get right to my suite. I'm the writer.
- Stuntman: So? I'm the stunt coordinator.
- Stanley Gould: So you can fall down later - I have writing that can't wait.”
Bob Hoskins - Stanley Gould

“Did you read her latest novel? It's not even literature - it's drainage. The only good books she ever wrote were when she was with me: every morning, while she was sleeping, I'd cross out half her adjectives.”

Mandy Patinkin - Alfred De Musset

“- Jane: You write the most beautiful things. Do you actually believe in love and marriage and just pretend to be a cynic or are you actually a cynic who knows how to spin romantic crap for girls like me?
- Kevin: I didn't follow that at all, but I think the second one, the spinning crap one.”
Katherine Heigl - Jane
James Marsden - Kevin

“I understand I've got a larned nigger that writes letters and tries to get white fellows to mail them.”
Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps

“A writer's life is his work. Jack Kerouac doesn't have to kill a bull to have something to write about. I mean, man, he's out there burning, feeling, grooving on life.”
Kevin J. O'Connor - Michael Fitzsimmons

“If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.”
Richard LaGravenese

“My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well, as there's already enough producers.”
David Twohy

You know what I think, "on some level"? I think you're the kind of wise cocksucker that writes a tear-jerk play against the Marines and then turns around and smuggles a shitload of heroin into this country.

Anthony Zerbe - Antheil

“Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life, well, valuable, but small, and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question...” (continue)(continue reading)

Meg Ryan - Kathleen Kelly

“- Michael Burgess: The script is, uh... very interesting. There are only a couple of things I have a problem with.
- Bo Hodges: Oh, yeah? What are they?
- Michael Burgess: The story and the dialogue.”
Alan Alda - Michael Burgess
Saul Rubinek - Bo Hodges

- Warren Blake: Have you ever noticed the number of things dad is capable of expressing just with the word "fuck"?
- Belle Blake: Trying to say dad is illiterate?
- Warren Blake: No, I mean he's a good old boy, so you know he talks to be understood, not just to sound good.
John D'Leo - Warren Blake
Dianna Agron - Belle Blake

“Life is the ultimate experience, and you have to live it to write about it.”
Viveca Lindfors - Professor Taub

“- John Correli: Did you kill Mr Boz, Miss Tramell?
- Catherine: I'd have to be pretty stupid to write a book about killing and then kill him the way I described in my book. I'd be announcing myself as the killer. I'm not stupid.”
Wayne Knight - John Correli
Sharon Stone - Catherine Tramell

“- Waitress: What are you writing?
- JJ Lask: A book.
- Waitress: Ah, a writer.
- JJ Lask: This is actually going to be made into a movie.
- Waitress: The movie is never as good as the book.”
Kevin Corrigan - JJ Lask
Judy Del Giudice - Waitress