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

“- 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

“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

“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