67 Movie Quotes about Writing (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

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.

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

Irene Dunne as Terry McKay in Love Affair (1939)

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

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

53 I'd like to get my hands on whoever wrote this script.

Kevin Bishop as Jim Hawkins in Muppet Treasure Island

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

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

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

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

56 What do you want with me after all this time without even calling or writing?

Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972)

57 This is literature? A 2-year-old could have written this. All right.

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

58 Although the future is a little bit frightening. It's the book of your life that you're writing.

Jack Black as Po in Kung Fu Panda

59 What's the writing say? What's that writing say?

Paul Newman as Lucas "Luke" Jackson in Cool Hand Luke

60 Reading, writing, arithmetic. Too much homework makes me sick.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Detective John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop