62 Movie Quotes about Writing (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 19, 2025

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

1 I was partial to tragedy in my youth. Before experience taught me that life is quite tragic enough without my writing about it.

Burgess Meredith as Ammon in Clash of the Titans (1981)

2 The pen is truly mightier than the sword.

Jack Nicholson as The Joker in Batman (1989)

3 Tsk. Make me write and _. If I was white, wouldn't be makin' me write.

Marlon Wayans as Loc Dog in Don't Be a Menace

4 Just because it's written down, that don't mean it's true. -True, absolutely.

Clint Eastwood as Chief Red Garnett in A Perfect World

5 Nothing is written!

Toole as T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia

6 Nothing is written.

Toole as T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia

7 Truly, for some men nothing is written unless they write it.

Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia

8 I write these words with a rusty iron point dipped in scrapings of soot and charcoal from the chimney, mixed with blood.

Orson Welles as Doctor Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

9 The words are written, in scrapings of soot mixed with blood, on scraps of crumbling paper. There they lie hidden away in the solid stone, year after year.

Martin Gabel as Jarvis Lorry in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

10 No. You're completely wrong. I write poetry just to throw my mean, callous, heartless exterior into sharp relief.

Martin Benson as Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy