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

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.

31 Well, he's a writer. People like him can afford to be temperamental.

Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele in In a Lonely Place

32 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)

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

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

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

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

35 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

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

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

37 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

38 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)

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

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