“- Emma Dinsmore: What's your book about?
- Alex Sheldon: It's the story of a man who's frightened of commitment yet so desperately in love with a woman he's afraid it might kill him. It's a comedy.”
Kate Hudson - Emma Dinsmore
Luke Wilson - Alex Sheldon

“All my knowledge came from books, and I'd just finished a novel about a glamorous French actress from the Comedie Francaise. That's the theater in France. When she wanted to arouse a man's interest, she treated him like a dog.”

Margaret Sullavan - Klara Novak

“I'm writing a novel myself. I'd be very disappointed if you gentlemen don't burn it.”

George Macready - Schoolteacher

“I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true.”
Edna May Wonacott - Ann Newton

“- Mayor Henry Manville: These books must be burned, Professor Sorel.
- Professor Sorel: By your order, Mr. Mayor? Or by order of the enemy?
- Mayor Henry Manville: Voltaire. Plato. The Republic. My dear friend, we have to be careful about that word: Republic.”
Thurston Hall - Mayor Henry Manville
Philip Merivale - Professor Sorel