62 Movie Quotes about Writing (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

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.

41 Move your elbow, Chuck. It's in my way. I can't write with your elbow in my way, Chuck.

Arrin Skelley as Charlie Brown in Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown

42 Bon voyage, man. Don't forget to write! Eh-eh-eh-eh-eh?

Daws Butler in The Tex Avery Show

43 Oh, if only I could write something like that. Something that would set other hearts on fire.

June Allyson as Jo March in Little Women (1950)

44 That sounds like a cheap novelette. -I write cheap novelettes.

Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins in The Third Man (1949)

45 I'll be first to admit it. What I was writing was somewhat touchy-feely. I didn't care. I had lost the ability to _.

Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire in Jerry Maguire

46 Allow me to introduce myself more fully. I'm Peter Alison, one of America's greatest writers of unimportant books.

Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

47 Write something we could always remember. -Something sizzling.

Irene Dunne as Terry McKay in Love Affair (1939)

48 You know what? You ought to write comedies for television.

Jim Kelly as Black Belt Jones in Black Belt Jones (1974)

49 You should read the new book Mark Twain's writing now.

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

50 I'm writing this down. This is good stuff.

Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly in Back to the Future