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

Updated: Mar 1, 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.

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

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

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

Bob Hoskins as Boris Goosinov in Balto (1995)

23 These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

Danny DeVito as Harry Wormwood in Matilda (1996)

24 She does have one script in which I kill myself. An adapted for television version of Anna Karenina where she's Count Vronsky and I'm Anna.

William Holden as Max Schumacher in Network (1976)

25 This happens to be a masterpiece of American literature, that's why.

Tom Berenger as Taylor in Major League (1989)

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

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

27 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

28 Name the great characters in American literature.

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

29 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

30 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)