Books quotes

“- Matilda: I have the adoption papers.
- Mrs. Wormwood: What? Where did you get those?
- Matilda: From a book in the library. I've had them since I was big enough to xerox.”
Mara Wilson - Matilda
Rhea Perlman - Mrs. Wormwood

“- 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

“I live in two worlds. One is a world of books.”
Alexis Bledel - Rory Gilmore

“All I know is, life is not a Nicholas Sparks novel.”
Zendaya - Rue Bennett

“- Mera: What are we doing?
- Arthur: Hiding inside a whale, I got this from Pinocchio!
[later, Mera finds out who Pinocchio is]
- Mera: You based our escape strategy from a children's book?
- Arthur: I didn't read the book, I just saw the movie!”
Amber Heard - Mera
Jason Momoa - Arthur

“- Roxanne Chase-Feder: Excuse me, Princess Rita. Are you just gonna sit there or are you gonna help me?
- Rita: No, Mr. Feder said that I must study for the big final.
- Roxanne Chase-Feder: What final?
- Rita: You tell me, he just keeps handing me books.”

Salma Hayek - Roxanne Chase-Feder
Di Quon - Rita

What do ya got here, anyways? "Rainbow Alligator Saves the Wetlands?". Uh, no. "The Organic Squirrel Gets a Bike Helmet?". I'm not reading these Communist books to you guys! Don't you got any real stories?

Adam Sandler - Skeeter Bronson

“I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.”
Thomas Jane

- Mallory Grace: The book was in here with a big warning that said "Do not read", and you read it?
- Jared Grace: It's a book. I didn't think reading it would unleash goblin fury, okay?
Sarah Bolger - Mallory Grace
Freddie Highmore - Jared Grace

“- Carl Conrad Coreander: Your books are safe. While you're reading them, you get to become Tarzan or Robinson Crusoe.
- Bastian: But that's what I like about 'em.
- Carl Conrad Coreander: Ahh, but afterwards you get to be a little boy again.
- Bastian: Wh-what do you mean?
- Carl Conrad Coreander: Listen. Have you ever been Captain Nemo, trapped...” (continue)(continue reading)
Thomas Hill - Carl Conrad Coreander
Barret Oliver - Bastian Balthazar Bux

“Why read words when you can just kill the stuff the words tell you stuff about?”

Jonah Hill - Snotlout

“Sometimes we don't pick the books we read, they pick us.”
Liev Schreiber - Sam

“You guys? There's a whole section on tax law down here that we can burn.”

Arjay Smith - Brian Parks

“- Fantasy: What is this?
- Richard Tyler: It's a library card.
- Fantasy: I'm a book, honey, I can read.”
Whoopi Goldberg - Fantasy
Macaulay Culkin - Richard Tyler

“- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: You have something against books?
- Hannah Stubbs: I have nothing about books! I am curious about the books in your trunk.
- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: You see, I was thinking of writing my story, so I bought this one on how to do it.
- Hannah Stubbs: Why do you need 25 copies of it?
- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli:...” (continue)(continue reading)

Steve Martin - Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli
Joan Cusack - Hannah Stubbs

“There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.”
Danny DeVito - Mr. Wormwood

“Books feed me.”
Jane Lynch - Sophie Lennon

“Sam-Wait, these are all library books. In my school, you're only allowed to check out one at a time. Some of these are going to be overdue. Do you steal? Why? You're not poor.
Suzy-I might turn some of them back in one day. I haven't decided yet. I know it's bad. I think I just took them to have a secret to keep.”
Jared Gilman - Sam
Kara Hayward - Suzy

“When we read a story, we inhabit it; the covers of the books are like a roof and four walls: a house.”
Julie Christie - Narrator

“A good book is the precious distillation of a master's spirit, embalmed and preserved for the purpose of achieving a life beyond life.”
Emily Mortimer - Florence Green

“No one ever feels alone in a bookshop.”
Julie Christie - Narrator

“In the case of biographies, it's better, I find, if they're about good people, whereas novels are much more interesting if they are about nasty people.”
Bill Nighy - Edmund Brundish

“I want to live my life so I can read an in-depth biography about myself in later years.”
Liza Weil - Paris Geller

“Oh, do you see the books? Feel it. Feels good, right? Now smell it. Nothing, nothing smells like that.”
Alexis Bledel - Rory Gilmore

“This isn’t To Kill a Mockingbird I dont need a white lawyer to save me.”
Karen Pittman - Dr. Nya Wallace