Reading quotes

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

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

- Devon Miles: I can't really read music.
- Mr. Wade: Oh, that's all right, son. Some people can't read the sign that says "toilet". Doesn't mean they don't know how to use it.
Nick Cannon - Devon Miles
J. Anthony Brown - Mr. Wade

- 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

“- Sonny: There's only three things you can do in the joint, kid: lift weights, play cards, or get in trouble.
- Calogero (Age 9): What did you do?
- Sonny: Me, I read.”
Chazz Palminteri - Sonny
Francis Capra - Calogero (Age 9)

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

“- Peter Mitchell: The champ caught Smith with a savage left hook...
- Michael Kellam: What are you reading her?
- Peter Mitchell: It doesn't matter what I read, it's the tone you use. She doesn't understand the words anyway, now where were we?”

Tom Selleck - Peter Mitchell
Steve Guttenberg - Michael Kellam

“- 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

“People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don't always like who they are.”
Esther Garrel - Marzia

“I'm fed up with all this reading! You're a Wormwood, you start acting like one! Now sit up and look at the TV.”
Danny DeVito - Mr. Wormwood

“Books feed me.”
Jane Lynch - Sophie Lennon

“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

“School is just for white people looking for other white people to read to 'em. I figured I save my money and read to myself.”
Rutina Wesley - Tara Thornton

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

“What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses — like they’re trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?”
Jerry Seinfeld - Jerry Seinfeld

“I guess people like to read about the things that they want the most and experience the least.”
Jeffrey Wright - Bernard Lowe

“Sleep is good and Books are better.”
Peter Dinklage - Tyrion Lannister

“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
Peter Dinklage - Tyrion Lannister

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The Man who doesn’t read lives only one.”
Thomas Brodie-Sangster - Jojen Reed

“When I first read Aristotle, I thought it was pronounced like Chipotle. Wait a minute, is it Chip-o-tottle?”
Kristen Bell - Eleanor Shellstrop

“See all those words printed in a line one after the other? Put them all together, and you have a story.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Kidd

“That’s sad. People buying books because of what’s popular, and not because they wanna be moved or changed in some way.”
Elizabeth Lail - Guinevere Beck

“I’m not convinced I know how to read, I’ve just memorized a lot of words.”
Jake Johnson - Nick Miller