Writing quotes

“What's the big deal, presidents don't write their own speeches...”

Kelli Garner - Barb

“- Cliff Stern: I actually wrote you a love letter.
- Halley Reed: I didn't get it.
- Cliff Stern: It's probably just as well. I plagiarized most of it from James Joyce. You probably wondered why all the references to Dublin.”
Woody Allen - Cliff Stern
Mia Farrow - Halley Reed

“Journalism is the art of capturing behavior and you have to know who you are writing for, you have to know what you're good at.”
Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass

“I use the pen, because the pen is mightier than the sword. But you must always keep a sword handy for when the pen fails.”
John Nichols - Himself

“- Chomina: Blackrobe, what you do?
- Laforgue: I am making words.
- Chomina: Making words? You not speak.
- Laforgue: I will show you.”
August Schellenberg - Chomina
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue

“You don't know a thing about writing. You're a Goddamn schoolteacher.”
Chevy Chase - Andy Farmer

“Free association writing is when you take a pencil in your hand and you put the pencil to a piece of paper and you start writing. You don't look at or think about what you're writing. And after a while, you keep writing long enough, words and thoughts come out that you didn't even know you had in you. It could be something you heard, something...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bruce Willis - Dr. Malcolm Crowe

“My journey to maturity began in New York, in 1928. I was married to Charles Rawlings, the newspaper man and yachting enthusiast. I had been trying to write stories that I thought would be most likely to sell - gothic romances were extremely popular - and I had written dozens. I was desperate to express myself. Even as a child I'd been consumed...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mary Steenburgen - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“- Young Celie Harris: Write!
- Nettie Harris: What?
- Young Celie Harris: Write!
- Nettie Harris: Nothing but death can keep me from it!”
Desreta Jackson - Young Celie Harris
Akosua Busia - Nettie Harris

- Ed Bloom - Young: "The grass so green Skies so blue. Spectre is really great!". It's only three lines long.
- Norther Winslow: This is why you should never show a work in progress.

Ewan McGregor - Ed Bloom - Young
Steve Buscemi - Norther Winslow

“Some reporters think it's political content that makes an article memorable. I think it's the people that you write about; you find their quarks, their flaws, what makes them funny and what makes them human.”
Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass

- Fred: One of the things that keeps popping up is this about "subtext". Plays, novels, songs - they all have a "subtext". Which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext we know. But what do you call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and obvious? They never talk about that. What... (continue)(continue reading)
Chris Eigeman - Fred Boynton
Taylor Nichols - Ted Boynton

“It has to be a playwright who writes thrillers because, I don't know, Arthur Miller probably has old sample cases hanging on the wall.”
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson

“I can't finish the novel, I don't know whether he's good or bad.”

Sammi Cheng - Mary

“- Malcolm Crowe: Have you done any free association writing, Cole?
- Cole Sear: Yes.
- Malcolm Crowe: What did you write?
- Cole Sear: Upset words.”
Bruce Willis - Dr. Malcolm Crowe
Haley Joel Osment - Cole Sear

“My love where are you? With no hope of reaching you I write to you... as I have always done.”

Nicole Kidman - Ada Monroe

“- Sam: Eli, do you know that when I read the insane asylum scene to my family... do you know that my oldest son shook my hand for the first time in his whole life? So why is it, Eli, why is it that your vulgar little scene turns out to be so much more moving? So much more impassioned?
- Eli Cross: Ah, I don't know, Sam. Possibly because we...” (continue)(continue reading)

Allen Garfield - Sam
Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross

“- Roger: [singing] Ti tum ti ta ti, ta tum ti ta tum.
- Roger: Do you like my new song?
- Anita: Ta tum ti ta tum. Such clever lyrics.
- Roger: Melody first, my dear, and then the lyrics.”
Ben Wright - Roger
Lisa Davis - Anita

“The first definitive analysis of Lecter will be a publisher's wet dream.”
Anthony Heald - Dr. Frederick Chilton

“- Gordie: Fuck writing, I don't want to be a writer. It's stupid. It's a stupid waste of time.
- Chris: That's your dad talking.
- Gordie: Bullshit.
- Chris: Bull true.”
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers

“- Roy O'Bannon: It's just a rock with some gibberish on it!
- Chon Wang: It's Chinese!”

Owen Wilson - Roy O'Bannon
Jackie Chan - Chon Wang

“All I know about are people fucking their way to the movies, and popping pills and ending up in the gutter. All I know about are aging stars, hopeful whores and cheap studs. All I know about are tits, ass and the truth... and nobody writes books about that.”
Bette Midler - Jacqueline Susann

- Julian: Call it something catchy, "Reluctant Tourist", and you are the fella to write it.
- Macon: But, I hate to travel.
- Julian: I thought so. So, do businessmen. I mean these folks would rather be at home in their living rooms. So, you will be helping them to pretend that that's where they are.

Bill Pullman - Julian
William Hurt - Macon

“- Jack Brown: I'm writing a book. Writing a book is a job.
- Stanley: No, writing a book is a cop out.”
Richard Pryor - Jack Brown
Tony Burton - Stanley

“When I speak nobody believes me, but when I write it down everybody knows it to be true.”
Michael Wincott - Rene Ricard