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

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.

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

Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972)

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

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

53 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

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

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

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Detective John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop

56 How come you ain't writing nobody?

Charlie Sheen as Private Chris Taylor in Platoon

57 What was our agreement? What did we put down in writing?

Cuba Gooding Jr. as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood

58 I don't know that much about writing...

Billy Crystal as Harry Burns in When Harry Met Sally...

59 My wife used to do everything for me and leave me to my writing.

Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange

60 This is the only autobiography that I will ever write and, God, I'm writing it on toilet paper.

Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta