30 Movie Quotes about Literature (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Jan 6, 2026

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

11 It's impossible. That's not even half finished. -Of course not. This is my library of unwritten books.

Harry Morgan as Carolinus; John Ritter as Peter Dickinson in The Flight of Dragons (1982)

12 I've just had my whole vacation ruined. We're supposed to read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. and then write a book report about it.

Chad Allen as Charlie Brown in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!

13 Pardon me, but do you have a comic book called War and Peace? No? Do you have a record of War and Peace? No? How about a tape or a cassette? No? Well, thanks, anyway. How about a computer game about War and Peace? No? Hmm.

Chad Allen as Charlie Brown in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!

14 We'll have us a little book barbecue in the yard. They'll see the flames for miles. We'll dance around it like wild lnjuns.

Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

15 Got a special tutor to read me all those books that were banned in Boston.

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar in Some Like It Hot

16 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

17 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.

Barbara Stanwyck as Martha Ivers; Van Heflin as Sam Masterson in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

18 You know, it was the writings of Jules Verne that had a profound effect on my life. It was when I was 11 that I first read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was then that I realized that I must devote my life to science.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part III

19 You read Shakespeare? -Read Shakespeare? I know Shakespeare backwards. Listen. Eraepsekahs, eraepsekahs. -Say, that is Shakespeare backwards.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

20 Between you and Balto, it's like Dostoyevsky novel around here. Lighten up.

Bob Hoskins as Boris Goosinov in Balto (1995)

30 Movie Quotes about Literature (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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