“When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.”
Billy Crystal - Harry Burns

- Joanna Eberhart: Hey, aren't you Bobbie Markowitz? I love your books. What was the name of that book, the one about your mother?
- Bobbie Markowitz: "I Love You, But Please Die".
Nicole Kidman - Joanna Eberhart
Bette Midler - Bobbie Markowitz

“It's been a long time since someone wrote a really good book in jail.”
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“- Terry Crabtree: Naturally you have copies.
- Prof. Grady Tripp: I have an alternate version of the first chapter.”

Robert Downey Jr. - Terry Crabtree
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“- Jamal: We've been talking about your book at school.
- Forrester: People have been talking about it for years. They just haven't been saying anything.
- Jamal: I think I got it down, though. I figure you were writing about how life never works out.
- Forrester: Really? You had to read a book to figure that out?”
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester