40 Movie Quotes about Writers (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: May 6, 2026

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.

31 Jesus H. Christ. You're not a writer, you're a killer.

Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket

32 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)

33 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)

34 Well, I'm not what you might call a public figure. -Oh, you're not? I mean, you write all these books, and you give all those talks, and everything just so everybody will leave you alone?

Debra Winger as Joy Davidman in Shadowlands

35 You should read the new book Mark Twain's writing now.

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

36 This is literature? A 2-year-old could have written this. All right.

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

37 They get their art and literature from dreams. Just wake up and write it down.

Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street

38 Well, he's the reason I became a writer, but that's not important.

Billy Crystal as Harry Burns in When Harry Met Sally...

39 There is also a certain man, a writer of subversive literature, who has been howling for your blood.

Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange

40 Well, I don't fight. I shouldn't be here, I'm a scribe, I write down words, and speak seven languages.

Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000)