67 Movie Quotes about Writing (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Mar 29, 2026

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.

31 I've always been curious to know how a writer works. -Usually in a sitting position.

Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele in In a Lonely Place

32 I wouldn't write a page if it wasn't for her, but she keeps talking all the time. The only way I can shut her up is to sit down and write.

Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele in In a Lonely Place

33 It's impossible. That's not even half finished. -Of course not. This is my library of unwritten books.

Harry Morgan as Carolinus; John Ritter as Peter Dickinson in The Flight of Dragons (1982)

34 So, he can't write. Big deal. Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy and our pathetic need for it is what gets us into so much trouble.

Rosie Odonnell in Sleepless in Seattle

35 You know why he stopped writing books. Because he masturbates.

Quote from Field of Dreams (1989)

36 I haven't published a word in 17 years, and still I have to endure lunatics like you.

James Earl Jones as Terence Mann in Field of Dreams (1989)

37 CIA? -I'm not an agent. I just write books for the CIA.

Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October

38 Do you know what I'm going to call my novel? The Bottle...that's all. Very simply, The Bottle. I've got it all here in my mind. Let me tell you the first chapter.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

39 That's what's going to be hard to write. Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. It's so simple. You've got to catch it through details... like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rainspout in front of her house.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

40 Oh, I don't know. I may teach or I may write a book... whatever the hell one does when one approaches the autumn of one's years.

William Holden as Max Schumacher in Network (1976)