126 Movie Quotes about Books (Sound Clips) - page 10

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about books, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

91 Perhaps we should take a look at them. Such a tome might open this door to the unknown.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

92 He's a writer. -Movies? -Books. My wife reads herself to sleep with 'em. -Oh. One of those writers. -Yeah.

Carole Lombard as Cherry Chester in The Moon's Our Home (1941)

93 Do you buy all these books retail, or do you send away for like a shrink kit that comes with all these volumes included?

Matt Damon as Will Hunting in Good Will Hunting

94 I wrote out a will and I gave it to the warden. I'm leaving everything to you. A pile of books. Maybe you can get something for them second hand. And a picture of my mother, in a silver frame. And a souvenir pillow from Atlantic City.

Austin Pendleton as Earl Williams in The Front Page (1974)

95 That's right. They're going to hate us at the beginning, but we'll get them in the end. And you know why? -Why? -Because we're gonna sell them cheap books and legal addictive stimulants.

Tom Hanks as Joe Fox in You've Got Mail

96 Have you ever thought about doing a book? -It's crossed my mind, I mean, something relevant for today, like the Luddite movement in 19th century England or something, we should talk. Call me.

Quote from You've Got Mail

97 You've deluded yourself into thinking that you're some sort of benefactor bringing books to the masses, but no one will ever remember you, Joe Fox.

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail

98 Oh, could I keep the book until you come out? I only have a few pages to go. I know the end. I always read that first. -Sure. Take your time.

Quote from In a Lonely Place

99 I'll loan you a book for a couple of cigarettes. If you don't mind what kind of a book it is.

Lizabeth Scott as Antonia "Toni" Marachek in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

100 I thought I might improve my mind, while I waited. -Boswell's Life of Johnson? Surely you didn't expect to wait that long? -I was just going to look at the pictures.

Quote from The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)