Writing quotes

“Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.”
James Gandolfini

“- Mike Erganian: What is the subject of your book? Non fiction?
- Miles: Uh, no. It's... it's a novel. Fiction. Yes. Although there is quite a bit from my own life... so I suppose that, technically some of it is nonfiction.
- Mike Erganian: Good I like non fiction. There is so much to know about this world. I think you read something somebody...” (continue)(continue reading)
Shaun Duke - Mike Erganian
Paul Giamatti - Miles

“Make your readershear the pauses between the sentences. Let them see characters lean forward, fidget with their cuticles, avert their eyes, uncross their legs.”
Jerome Stern

“You don't put yourself into what you write. You find yourself there.”

Alex Jennings - Alan Bennett

“- Susan Morrow: Why are you so driven to write?
- Edward Sheffield: I guess it's a way of keeping things alive. You know, saving things that will eventually die. If I write it down, then... it'll last forever.”
Amy Adams - Susan Morrow
Jake Gyllenhaal - Edward Sheffield

- Mr. Bruner: "You're complicated, and simple, and I feel this connection between us. I feel like I already know you". This is kinda sweet, I think you're overreacting. "I just want to be with you. I want to give you... head. I want you to put your mouth on my tits. I want to feel you inside me. We can do it in the Petland stockroom."
- Nadine:... (continue)(continue reading)

Woody Harrelson - Mr. Bruner
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

“Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket, the least understood and the least noticed.”
Frank Capra

“- Barbara: With a cute little rear end like that, you'll be the belle of the ball. Your dance card'll be filled every day. You'll be so popular, making all kinds of new, close friends. Big, ugly, hairy friends! Not that you'll ever see what they look like, 'cause you'll be facing the other way.
- Ken Kessler: You're very good at this. You should...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bette Midler - Barbara Stone
Judge Reinhold - Ken Kessler

“Half of writing history is hiding the truth.”
Nathan Fillion - Mal

“The idea of writing anything about Europe and Brexit filled me with an earthquake of a yawn.”
Heathcote Williams

“No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“Writing is an antidote for loneliness.”
Steven Berkoff

“I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.”
Cary Elwes

“I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.”
Anthony Minghella

“- Harvey: You can't write songs.
- Manuel: I don't write them. I just find them in my mouth.”
Freddie Bartholomew - Harvey
Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“I'd recognize this penmanship anywhere. You have the handwritin' of a serial killer.”
Olympia Dukakis - Clairee Belcher

“Why is it that the words that we write for ourselves are always so much better than the words we write for others?”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“Be sure to write.”
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace

“- Wes Craven: I think the only way to stop him is to make another movie. Now I swear to you I'll I'm gonna stay by this computer and keep writing until I finish the script, but... when the time comes, you're gonna have to make a choice.
- Heather Langenkamp: Choice? What kind of choice?
- Wes Craven: Whether or not you will be willing to play...” (continue)(continue reading)
Wes Craven - Wes Craven
Heather Langenkamp - Heather Langenkamp

“When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.”
Grant Heslov

“Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle.”
Grant Heslov

“You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone.”
Anthony Minghella

“Caustic wit is my religion.”
Melissa McCarthy - Lee Israel

“I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.”
Grant Heslov

“My true nature, I believe, is writing.”
Richard LaGravenese