38 Movie Quotes about Writers (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: July 6, 2025

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

11 You see, I'm a writer, and so I know. You have none of the symptoms. Your appetite's fine, you sleep like a log, and you don't mope in corners. Therefore you're not in love. Therefore do not go and marry that man.

June Allyson as Jo March in Little Women (1950)

12 Say to yourself, I will never write a single line which I have not first felt in my own heart!

Professor Bhaer in Little Women (1950)

13 Say to yourself, while I'm young, I will write the simple, beautiful things I know and understand. Will you do that, Josephine? -I'll try.

Professor Bhaer in Little Women (1950)

14 Well, I hope you don't cherish any illusions as to your ability as a writer.

Carole Lombard as Cherry Chester in The Moon's Our Home (1941)

15 And Mother. You know why Mother writes plays? Because two years ago a typewriter was delivered to the house by mistake!

Fay Wray as Alice in You Can't Take It with You (1939)

16 How about you? You drink, don't you? Alcohol, I mean. -Oh, a little. -A little? And you a writer? Tsk, tsk, tsk. I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives. You know, at one time I think I secretly wanted to be a writer.

Quote from The Philadelphia Story (1940)

17 It's all right, Paine. He's only a scribbler with too much drink in him.

Trevor Howard as Major Calloway in The Third Man (1949)

18 And I write novels! -Yeah. He writes 'em in crayon. -Though I haven't had any published yet, so I better warn you, I'm in a mean mood!

Quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

19 I've always been curious to know how a writer works. -Usually in a sitting position.

Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele in In a Lonely Place

20 I wouldn't write a page if it wasn't for her, but she keeps talking all the time. The only way I can shut her up is to sit down and write.