68 Movie Quotes about Writing with Audio – Page 3

Updated: Aug 11, 2026

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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 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)

27 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)

28 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)

29 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; Jackie Robinson as Himself in The Jackie Robinson Story

30 I should've written oftener, but you know how it is. You keep waiting for good news, something worth writing about. And then when this big chance came, I didn't wanna tell you about it. I wanted to be sure I had the contract signed and everything.

Jackie Robinson as Himself in The Jackie Robinson Story