Books quotes

“This book will change how people write.”
Bob Balaban - William Shawn

“- Leonard Shelby: How can you read that again?
- Leonard's Wife: It's good.
- Leonard Shelby: Yeah, but you read it like a thousand times.
- Leonard's Wife: I enjoy it.
- Leonard Shelby: I always thought the pleasure of a book is not knowing what happens next.
- Leonard's Wife: Hey, don't be a prick. I'm not reading it to annoy you, I enjoy it....” (continue)(continue reading)
Guy Pearce - Leonard Shelby
Jorja Fox - Leonard's Wife

“The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.”
Anthony George Newley

“- Bastian: Do you carry how-to books?
- Koreander: How-to books? Does this place look like a supermarket? If you want advice on how to buy real estate or housebreak your goldfish, go to the video store down the street.”
Jonathan Brandis - Bastian Balthazar Bux
Thomas Hill - Koreander

“Sometimes when I think of how good my book is going to be, I can't breathe.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote

“Gronkles, Zippleback, the Skrill... Boneknapper... Whispering Death... Burns its victims, buries its victims, chokes its victims, turns its victims inside-out... Extremely dangerous, extremely dangerous... kill on sight, kill on sight, kill on sight... Night Fury. Speed unknown. Size unknown. The unholy offspring of lightning and death itself....” (continue)(continue reading)

Jay Baruchel - Hiccup

“Books are awfully decorative, don't you think?”
Joanna Barnes - Gloria Upson

- Left Ear: [reading from a guide book] "Learn the language of poetry, art, romance, sex".
- Handsome Rob: Unlike you, my friend, I don't need a guide book.
Yasiin Bey - Left Ear
Jason Statham - Handsome Rob

“I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.”
Françoise Hardy

- Hando: “Mein Kampf”, do you know it?
- Gabe: It's about war isn't it?
Russell Crowe - Hando
Jacqueline McKenzie - Gabe

“- Prof. Marieke van den Broeck: How do you like the book?
- Harry Donovan: I don't like books.
- Prof. Marieke van den Broeck: Just look at the pictures?
- Harry Donovan: Yeah, ever since I was a little boy.”
Irène Jacob - Prof. Marieke van den Broeck
Jason Patric - Harry Donovan

“- Miss Ungermeyer: Mr. Craft, have you even started on your summer reading list?
- Ethan Craft: I finished it.
- Miss Ungermeyer: You read eleven books?
- Ethan Craft: I mean I read the list!”
Alex Borstein - Miss Ungermeyer
Clayton Snyder - Ethan Craft

“- Coulmier: It's nothing but an encyclopedia of perversions. One man killed his wife after reading them.
- The Marquis de Sade: It's a fiction, not a moral treatise.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Coulmier
Geoffrey Rush - The Marquis de Sade

I realize I have been using food as a substitute for love and I have the books to prove it: "Breaking the Cycle", "Heal Yourself in 7 Days", "Stop Blaming Yourself, Please", and "Help for the Bedwetting Child", which I picked up by mistake. But I've got them all!
Scott Cohen - Wolf

“Okay, Ben, pay attention. I've brought you to the Library of Congress. Why? Because it's the biggest library in the world. Over 20 million books. And they're all saying the same exact thing: Listen to Riley.”
Justin Bartha - Riley Poole

“- Rudy Steiner: You're stealing books? Why?
- Liesel Meminger: When life robs you, sometimes you have to rob it back.”
Nico Liersch - Rudy Steiner
Sophie Nélisse - Liesel Meminger

“- Will Graham: Jack, there's only one safe way to carry on a conversation that's one-way blind.
- Jack Crawford: Publication.”
Edward Norton - Will Graham
Harvey Keitel - Jack Crawford

“Tell me the truth. Does anybody actually finish a book once they have formed an opinion of it?”
Sarah Jessica Parker - Sarah Geldhart

I had a wonderful girlfriend Linda. Together we drove to a small cabin in the mountains. It seems an archeologist had come to this remote place to translate and study his latest find: "Necronomiconexmortis". "The Book of the Dead". Bound in human flesh and inked in blood, this ancient Samarian text contained bizarre burial rights, funeral... (continue)(continue reading)
Bruce Campbell - Ashley "Ash" J. Williams (Evil Dead series)

“- 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

- Peggy: MGM wants you to do the Ian Fleming book "Casino Royale" with Cary Grant. Definitely your style.
- Alfred Hitchcock: Doesn't she know I just made that movie? It was called "North by Northwest". And "style", my dear, is mere self-plagiarism.
Toni Collette - Peggy
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Alfred Hitchcock

“Dear reader, you will soon see that there are fantastical creatures living among us, hidden through mimicry and magic. This book will give you the tools and techniques needed to lift the veil and see the unseen. Once you have this sight, you will never see things the same way again.”
David Strathairn - Arthur Spiderwick

“- Tom Welles: Wouldn't want to embarrass yourself in front of your fellow perverts.
- Max California: That's right. I might get drummed out of the Pornographer's Union. Where would I be then?”

Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles
Joaquin Phoenix - Tom Welles

“- Jacob Fuller: Has anybody here read a real book about vampires, or are we just remembering what a movie said? I mean a real book.
- Sex Machine: You mean like a Time-Life book?”
Harvey Keitel - Jacob Fuller
Tom Savini - Sex Machine

“- Neha: I've only read about this stuff, okay? Craigslist casual encounters, Twilight fanfiction, hentai.
- Nick Campbell: What's hentai?
- Neha: Japanese comic books where the women get penetrated by octopus tentacles.”
Tiya Sircar - Neha
Owen Wilson - Nick Campbell