Reading quotes

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

- 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

“- 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

“- 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

“I read. I just don't read what they give us in school. I mean, do I really care who wins between Beowulf and Grendel? No, I don't. Maybe if I had a little money on it.”
Timothée Chalamet - Gatsby Welles

“When I read, nobody's after me. When I read, I'm the one who's chasing.”
Mel Gibson - James Murray

“Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.”
Theo James

“This is not a good place for someone who likes reading.”
Antonia San Juan - Imoguiri

“I'm a comic book guy, I grew up reading comics and graphic novels and being fans of those worlds.”
Micheal B. Jordan

“- Young Joan: A writer has to write.
- Elaine Mozell: A writer has to be read, honey.”
Annie Starke - Young Joan
Elizabeth McGovern - Elaine Mozell

“- Betty Schaefer: Oh, the old familiar story. You help a timid little soul cross a crowded street, she turns out to be a multimillionaire and leaves you all her money.
- Joe Gillis: That's the trouble with you readers, you know all the plots.”
Nancy Olson - Betty Schaefer
William M. Holden - Joe Gillis

“- Billie Dawn: You could have saved yourself the trouble. I don't read papers.
- Paul Verrall: Never?
- Billie Dawn: Yeah, once in a while the back part... the funnies.
- Paul Verrall: Oh, I think you should. The, the front part... the not-so-funnies.”
Judy Holliday - Billie Dawn
William M. Holden - Paul Verrall

“- Mrs. Atwater: Do you know, when I was a girl I used to read quite a bit.
- Brandon: We all do strange things in our childhood.”
Constance Collier - Mrs. Atwater
John Dall - Brandon

“- Phillip: Rupert only publishes books he likes... usually philosophy.
- Janet: Oh. Small print, big words, no sales.
- Brandon: Rupert's extremely radical. Do you know that he selects his books on the assumption that people not only can read but actually can think?”
Farley Granger - Phillip
Joan Chandler - Janet
John Dall - Brandon

“People read about love as one thing and experience it as another. Well, they expect kisses to be like lyrical poems and embraces to be like Shakespearean dramas.”
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen

“It must be really nice to have a job where you get to sit around and read all day.”
Taylor Schilling - Angela

“I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.”
Jason Momoa

“- Ben Wade: Have you ever read a book in your life, Byron, except the bible?
- Byron McElroy: No need.”
Russell Crowe - Ben Wade
Peter Fonda - Byron McElroy

“I'm very non-physically resourceful. I read a lot of intelligence, I read a lot of poems, and I've read all of the 'Hunger Games'.”
Miranda Hart - Nancy B. Artingstall

“- Greg Heffley: Without devices, there's absolutely nothing to do.
- Susan Heffley: Look at the scenery. Read a book.
- Greg Heffley: Read a book? It's summer vacation!”
Jason Drucker - Greg Heffley
Alicia Silverstone - Susan Heffley

“- Cliff: Jenny, prepare yourself for a shock: I'm the Rocketeer.
- Jenny: The Rocke-who?
- Cliff: For crying out loud, haven't you read the papers?
- Jenny: No, I've been working all day.”
Billy Campbell - Cliff
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Jenny