Writing quotes

Don't you have a dark side? I know, you're probably one of those cheerful people who dot their "i's" with little hearts.
Billy Crystal - Harry Burns

“- Celine: Do you think you would have finished your book if you were fucking someone every five minutes?
- Jesse: I might have welcomed the challenge.”
Julie Delpy - Celine
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“The crisis may be a recognition, a decision, or a resolution. The character understands what hasn't been seen before, or realizes what must be done, or finally decides to do it. It's when the worm turns. Timing is crucial. If the crisis occurs too early, readers will expect still another turning point. If it occurs too late, readers will get...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jerome Stern

“Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all drabbly individual. Now what can one write about happiness?”
Ralph Fiennes - Maurice Bendrix

“- Paula McCullen: Breasts too large, Richard? Every female character you create has breasts too large.
- Richard Babson: Mmm... but I make them suffer for it.”
Goldie Hawn - Paula McCullen
Burt Reynolds - Richard Babson

“- Tully: You can really write. Why do you live like a bum?
- Henry: I am a bum. What do you want me to do? Do you want me to write about the sufferings of the upper classes?
- Tully: This may be news to you but they suffer too.
- Henry: Hey baby, nobody suffers like the poor.”
Alice Krige - Tully
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Chris: You're gonna be a great writer someday, Gordie. You might even write about us guys if you ever get hard-up for material.
- Gordie: Guess I'd have to be pretty hard-up, huh?”
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance

“I need writing. Don't ask why. Just take out your pen and write on my arm.”
Vivian Wu - Nagiko

“- JJ Lask: There's a better me running around in my head.
- Serra - Real: Right. Well I hope the better you can write better than you.”
Kevin Corrigan - JJ Lask
Eleanor Hutchins - Serra - Real

“- Vernon Hardapple: Why did you keep writing this book if you didn't even know what it was about?
- Prof. Grady Tripp: I couldn't stop.”
Richard Knox - Vernon Hardapple
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“You despise someone like me because you despise the modern. But you are at the very forefront of what is modern. You write about it, you document it... Unlike you, though, I have chosen to embrace it.”

Sir Ian Holm - Doctor Murnau

“I should feel like a deprived animal if I can't write. I'm like a starved dog.”
Dame Judi Dench - Iris Murdoch

“- Lindsay: What 'cha doing?
- Andy: Writing in my gournal. I write my thoughts in it every day.
- Lindsay: Oh, you mean a journal?
- Andy: Yeah, whatever. I guess I'm not all smart like you. ”
Elizabeth Banks - Lindsay
Paul Rudd - Andy

“How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong, though they once sounded right and rare? When the notes are sour, where is the power you once had to ignite the air?”
Adam Pascal - Roger Davis

“- Buliwyf - Leader: You can draw sounds?
- Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: Draw sounds? Yes, I can draw sounds... and I can speak them back.
- Buliwyf - Leader: Show me.
- Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: [drawing in the sand] There is only one God, and Mohammad is his prophet.”
Vladimir Kulich - Buliwyf - Leader
Antonio Banderas - Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan

“- Nick: Writing a book about it gives you an alibi for not killing him.
- Catherine: Yes it does, doesn't it?”

Michael Douglas - Detective Nick Curran
Sharon Stone - Catherine Tramell

“It writes like butter. I mean, there is actual butter coming out of my pen.”

Randy Quaid - Michael McDougal

She spent the last three months writing down her married name. "Mrs. Judy Hicks", "Mrs. Donald Hicks"; "Mrs. Judy Mitchellson Hicks", sometimes with a hyphen, sometimes without a hyphen. Sometimes, she spells the hyphen.
Elizabeth Perkins - Susan

“- Nancy Kendricks: Alex is a writer.
- Mrs. Connelly: Oh, a writer. I always thought of that as more of a hobby than a real job. I suppose I'm forgetting about Joyce.
- Alex Rose: Joyce. James Joyce. Of course. Wonderful writer.
- Mrs. Connelly: He died drunk and penniless.”
Drew Barrymore - Nancy Kendricks
Eileen Essell - Mrs. Connelly
Ben Stiller - Alex Rose

“My name is Silas Crow. I'm 18-years-old. For a year, me and Frank Fencepost been trying to get into this mechanic school. First, they tell us we gotta write a story. Something about something we know. Well, for a long time I couldn't find one, I mean, lots of stuff goes on here, but I couldn't see it as stuff you'd write down.”
Ryan Rajendra Black - Silas Crow

“You're, you're - you're the goddamn thing. You're, you're. I can't describe you... uhh, I don't, I don't write that kind of shit, I write... You know, the people who write, who write the real books, the love books, and the poems, and even those stupid little fucking novels with the hunky assholes on the cover...”

Billy Crudup - Henry

“- Kira: What's writing?
- Jen: Words that stay. My master taught me.”
Lisa Maxwell - Kira
Stephen Garlick - Jen

- James Brennan: I think somebody was trying to write "Satan Lives" on that wall but they spelled it "Satin Lives".
- Em Lewin: One of those textile worshiping cults, no doubt.
Jesse Eisenberg - James Brennan
Kristen Stewart - Em Lewin

“I've always found that writing comes from a great inner pain.”
John Turturro - Barton Fink

“- David Shayne: Was there nothing in the original draft that you feel was worth saving?
- Helen Sinclair: The stage directions were lucid. Best I've ever seen... and the color of the binder. Good choice.
- David Shayne: Thank you. I've always had a flair for stage directions.”
John Cusack - David Shayne
Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair