“There are no trashy writers, only trashy readers.”
Tom Conti - Gowan McGland

“Many writers do everything in their power to insulate themselves from the common man, from where they live, from where they trade, from where they fight and love and converse and... and... so naturally their work suffers and regresses into empty formalism.”
John Turturro - Barton Fink

“- Dave Jennings: Teaching is just a way to pay the bills until I finish my novel.
- Donald Schoenstein: How long you been workin' on it?
- Dave Jennings: Four and a half years.
- Larry Kroger: It must be very good.
- Dave Jennings: It's a piece of shit. Would anyone like to smoke some pot?”
Donald Sutherland - Dave Jennings
Peter Riegert - Donald Schoenstein
Tom Hulce - Larry Kroger

“It has to be a playwright who writes thrillers because, I don't know, Arthur Miller probably has old sample cases hanging on the wall.”
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson

“- Stanley Gould: I have to get right to my suite. I'm the writer.
- Stuntman: So? I'm the stunt coordinator.
- Stanley Gould: So you can fall down later - I have writing that can't wait.”
Bob Hoskins - Stanley Gould