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

Updated: Jan 6, 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 You should read the new book Mark Twain's writing now.

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

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

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

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

Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972)

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

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

55 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

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

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

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Detective John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop

58 How come you ain't writing nobody?

Charlie Sheen as Private Chris Taylor in Platoon

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

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

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

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

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

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