Writing quotes

“Hi, Monica. We're just feeling out the texture of your prose.”

Tori Spelling - Stacy Lockwood

“Do not cite the Deep Magic to me Witch. I was there when it was written.”
Liam Neeson - Aslan

“- Henry: You know, in the guest house, you could write in peace.
- Tully: Hey, Tully baby, nobody who could write worth a damn could ever write in peace, Jesus.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry
Mickey Rourke - Tully

“- Stanley Gould: You're not upset, are you?
- Michael Burgess: I think I should warn you - I have a sword in my bag.”

Bob Hoskins - Stanley Gould
Alan Alda - Michael Burgess

I only work at the video store part time, and at night I'm working on my first novel, called "I Hate People".
Johnny Galecki - Arthur

“I had come to write about truth, beauty, freedom, and that which I believed in above all things: love.”
Ewan McGregor - Christian

- William Miller: Do you have to be depressed to write a sad song? Do you have to be in love to write a love song? Is a song better when it really happened to you? Like "Love Thing", where did you write that and who was it about?
- Russell Hammond: When did you get so professional?
Patrick Fugit - William Miller
Billy Crudup - Russell Hammond

“Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever.”

Ewan McGregor - Christian

“- Jamal Wallace: Did you ever enter a writin' contest?
- William Forrester: Yeah, once.
- Jamal Wallace: Did you win?
- William Forrester: Well of course I won!
- Jamal Wallace: You win like money or somethin'?
- William Forrester: No.
- Jamal Wallace: Well, whadchu win?
- William Forrester: The Pulitzer.”
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“- Tom Ripley: Nothing is more naked than your handwriting. See how nothing's quite touching the line? That's vanity.
- Dickie Greenleaf: Well, we certainly know that that's true.”
Matt Damon - Tom Ripley
Jude Law - Dickie Greenleaf

“You can't write it if you don't know how it ends - Journalism 101.”
Joey Travolta - Newspaper Editor

- Isabelle Grossman: What I love most about your writing...
- Anton Maes: Yes, yes, yes, yes?
- Isabelle Grossman: Is it's deceptive accessibility. It reads like "Pulp Fiction"... and then you... hear music.
- Anton Maes: Will you tell me that when I call you with an anxiety attack at 4 in the morning?
Amy Irving - Isabelle Grossman
Jeroen Krabbé - Anton Maes

Somebody once said, "To write well, you have to write what you know". Well, here is what I know...
Drew Barrymore - Josie Geller

“It's been a long time since someone wrote a really good book in jail.”
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“- Tully: Why did you send your stuff to us?
- Henry: Well, I liked the title of the mag. It boggled my scrotum.”

Alice Krige - Tully
Mickey Rourke - Henry

- William Forrester: Paragraph three starts...with a conjunction, "and." You should never start a sentence with a conjunction.
- Jamal Wallace: Sure you can.
- William Forrester: No, it's a firm rule.
- Jamal Wallace: No, it was a firm rule. Sometimes using a conjunction at the start of a sentence makes it stand out. And that may be what the... (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace

“- Nick: What's your new book about?
- Catherine: A detective. He falls for the wrong woman.
- Nick: What happens to him?
- Catherine: She kills him.”
Michael Douglas - Detective Nick Curran
Sharon Stone - Catherine Tramell

“- Holly Golightly: What do you do, anyway?
- Paul Varjak: I'm a writer, I guess.
- Holly Golightly: You guess? Don't you know?
- Paul Varjak: Ok, positive statement. Ringing affirmative. I'm a writer.”
Audrey Hepburn - Holly Golightly
George Peppard - Paul Varjak

“- Paul Krendler: I don't understand why she didn't turn it in she is such a straight arrow.
- Mason Verger: She didn't turn it in because she didn't receive it; she didn't receive it because it wasn't sent it; wasn't sent because he didn't write it; he didn't write because I did!”
Ray Liotta - Paul Krendler
Gary Leonard Oldman - Mason Verger

“- Lyle Rogers: We're not singers, we're songwriters.
- Marty Freed: So? The Beach Boys weren't songwriters.”
Warren Beatty - Lyle Rogers
Jack Weston - Marty Freed

- President Matt Douglas: A cookbook. He wrote a cookbook. How dare he?
- Joanna: Well, you know, when he was President, he did cook for his guests all the time.
- President Matt Douglas: That's not the point. Did George Washington write a book called "Your Wooden Teeth and You?" Did William Howard Taft write "Thirty Days To A Slimmer Ass?" It's... (continue)(continue reading)
James Garner - President Matt Douglas
Marg Helgenberger - Joanna

“You must write from life, from the depths of your soul!”
Gabriel Byrne - Friedrich Bhaer

“- Sebastian: First I have to live a little so I have something to write about.
- Henrietta: So, for the time being, you're just going to live a little?
- Sebastian: No, I'm going to live a lot.”
Adrian Grenier - Sebastian Cole
Clark Gregg - Henrietta

“Resolution number one: obviously, will lose twenty pounds. Number two: will find nice sensible boyfriend and not continue to form romantic attachments to alcoholics, workaholics, peeping-toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits or perverts.”

Renee Zellweger - Bridget Jones

“- Lytton Strachey: The truth is, I've always been better at living than I ever was at writing.
- Dora Carrington: What's wrong with that?”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington