29 Movie Quotes about Literature (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Nov 20, 2025

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.

21 This is literature? A 2-year-old could have written this. All right.

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

22 They get their art and literature from dreams. Just wake up and write it down.

Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street

23 Name the great characters in American literature.

Peter Billingsley as Ralphie Parker in A Christmas Story (1983)

24 There is also a certain man, a writer of subversive literature, who has been howling for your blood.

Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange

25 Embedded in the crystals before you is the total accumulation of all literature and scientific fact from dozens of other worlds spanning the 28 known galaxies.

Marlon Brando as Jor El in Superman (1978)

26 I knew you weren't suited for literature.

Dave Goelz as The Great Gonzo in The Muppet Christmas Carol

27 He's a teacher of medieval literature. The one the students hope they don't get.

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

28 Several languages... Knowledge of music... literature. Knowledge of... Knowledge of...

Toole as T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia

29 Oh? You're interested in literature? -Interested? Oh, there's nothing I like better than to hide away by myself with a book... a good book. Oh! Well, you may write that down.

James Stewart as Anthony Amberton in The Moon's Our Home (1941)

29 Movie Quotes about Literature (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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