42 Movie Quotes about Writers with Audio – Page 4

Updated: Oct 21, 2026

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31 As an author, I write tales of mystery and murder.

Agnes Moorehead as Cornelia van Gorder in The Bat (1959)

32 He's a writer. -Movies? -Books. My wife reads herself to sleep with 'em. -Oh. One of those writers. -Yeah.

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

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 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)

35 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; Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

36 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)

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

Quote from A Clockwork Orange

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

Quote from Despicable Me

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

Quote from A Nightmare on Elm Street

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

Quote from When Harry Met Sally...