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

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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 Allow me to introduce myself more fully. I'm Peter Alison, one of America's greatest writers of unimportant books.

Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

32 I'd like to get my hands on whoever wrote this script.

Kevin Bishop as Jim Hawkins in Muppet Treasure Island

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

Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket

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

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

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

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

36 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

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

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

38 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

39 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)