62 Movie Quotes about Writing (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 I can't read or write, you know that. -Listen, you don't read and write a man into jail.

Walter Pidgeon as Will Cantrell; George Gabby Hayes in Dark Command (1940)

22 Tried to write with ink once. Looked like an Easter egg for a week.

John Wayne as Bob Seton in Dark Command (1940)

23 I'm having trouble reading my own writing. I guess I was a little more tired than I thought.

Kevin Bacon as Jack Swigert in Apollo 13

24 Such an audience needs something stronger than a pretty little love story. So, why shouldn't I write of monsters?

Elsa Lanchester as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Monster'S Bride in Bride of Frankenstein

25 You know what this is, of course? -Of course I know what this is. This is writing.

Zero Mostel as Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

26 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)

27 Say to yourself, I will never write a single line which I have not first felt in my own heart!

Robert Boone as Professor Bhaer in Little Women (1950)

28 Say to yourself, while I'm young, I will write the simple, beautiful things I know and understand. Will you do that, Josephine? -I'll try.

Robert Boone as Professor Bhaer in Little Women (1950)

29 Well, I hope you don't cherish any illusions as to your ability as a writer.

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

30 You got a girl, Jackie? -Well, I don't know. -What do you mean, you don't know? -Traveling around all the time and not writing as oft as I should... I think I still have a girl.

Minor Watson as Branch Rickey in The Jackie Robinson Story