“Life is the ultimate experience, and you have to live it to write about it.”
Viveca Lindfors - Professor Taub

“- Sebastian: First I have to live a little so I have something to write about.
- Henrietta: So, for the time being, you're just going to live a little?
- Sebastian: No, I'm going to live a lot.”
Adrian Grenier - Sebastian Cole
Clark Gregg - Henrietta

“Your aunt is a very lucky woman Angelica. She has two lives. The life she is living, and the book she is writing.”

Miranda Richardson - Vanessa Bell

“- George Sand: The style's a bit precious. Mind if I rewrite it?
- Alfred De Musset: Not at all. We'll have a horse sent in.”

Judy Davis - George Sand
Mandy Patinkin - Alfred De Musset

“Did you read her latest novel? It's not even literature - it's drainage. The only good books she ever wrote were when she was with me: every morning, while she was sleeping, I'd cross out half her adjectives.”

Mandy Patinkin - Alfred De Musset