38 Movie Quotes about Writers (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 6, 2025

Memorable quotes about writers, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 For once, I'm stuck without a punch line.

Mark Hamill as The Joker in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

2 Not only does he have a snappy, punchy prose style, but he is, in my 40 years in this business, the fastest typist I've ever seen.

Jackie Cooper as Perry White in Superman (1978)

3 Well, I don't know who wrote this book, but you all have got to stop calling each other sluts and whores.

Tina Fey as Ms. Sharon Norbury in Mean Girls (2004)

4 That book was written by a bunch of stupid girls who make up rumors because they're bored with their own lame lives.

Jonathan Bennett as Aaron Samuels in Mean Girls (2004)

5 That is very naughty. Whoever wrote that is a naughty boy.

Peter Sellers as Auguste Topaze in Mr. Topaze (1961)

6 Okay. Positive statement. Ringing affirmative. I'm a writer.

George Peppard as Paul Varjak in Breakfast at Tiffany's

7 Tell me, are you a real writer? I mean, does anybody buy what you write or publish it or anything?

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's

8 When you get yourself a new writer to help, try and find one my size. That way you won't have to even shorten the sleeves.

George Peppard as Paul Varjak in Breakfast at Tiffany's

9 I'm a writer. W-R-I-T-E-R.

George Peppard as Paul Varjak in Breakfast at Tiffany's

10 I've always wanted to go to Europe. Oh, not for the baths, of course. Not at all. But for my writing... It's so good for writers.

June Allyson as Jo March in Little Women (1950)

38 Movie Quotes about Writers (+ Sound Clips)

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