Reading quotes

“Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.”
James Gandolfini

“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

- 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

“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

“- 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

“Writers write things to give readers something to read.”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“There was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting. And I believe that time can come again!”
Luke Wilson - Joe Bauers

“- Glenda Gardenia Parks: Chester! You just went through a stop sign.
- Chester: I can't help it. I don't like to read when I drive.”
Goldie Hawn - Glenda Parks
T.K. Carter - Chester

“- Gaston: [rudely flipping through Belle's book] How can you read this? There's no pictures!
- Belle: Well, some people use their imagination.”
Richard White - Gaston
Paige O'Hara - Belle

“- Jimmy Lynch: You read the newspapers, Jock?
- Jockamo: Of course I read the newspapers. What do I look like, an imbecile?”
Timothy Hutton - Jimmy Lynch
Steven Keats - Jockamo

“When I'm reading a book, I don't need a first edition to enjoy it. A dollar copy is good enough so long as the words are there.”
Marlon Brando

“Most heads of studio stop reading scripts when they get their jobs and become hostage to the reports of low-paid readers, who are usually young, frustrated filmmakers.”
John Boorman

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