Cast and Crew

Damon Lindelof: You know what I really love?
Carlton Cuse: What?
Damon Lindelof: TV. But you know what I love even less than TV?
Carlton Cuse: Books?
Damon Lindelof: Books.

Characters (By Episode)

(2×23)

Desmond [about Our Mutual Friend]: I’ve read everything Mr. Charles Dickens has ever written – every wonderful word. Every book except this one. I’m saving it so it will be the last thing I ever read before I die.
Master Sergeant: Nice idea, as long as you know when you’re going to die.

(3×1)

Adam: [about Stephen King’s Carrie] It’s not even literature, it’s popcorn.
Amelia: And why isn’t it literature, Adam, I’m dying to know?
Adam: There’s no metaphor. It’s by-the-number religious hokem-pokem.
Amelia: No metaphor?
Adam: It’s science fiction. Now I know why Ben isn’t here.
Juliet: Excuse me?
Adam: I know the host picks the book but seriously, Julie, he wouldn’t read this in the damn bathroom.
Juliet: Well, Adam, I am the host and I do pick the book, and this is my favorite book. So I am absolutely thrilled that you can’t stand it. Silly me for sinking so low as to select something that Ben wouldn’t like. Here I am thinking that free will still actually exists on this…
[later]
Ben [seeing Juliet holding Carrie]: So I guess I’m out of the book club.

(3×04)

Ben: Something I want you to see.
Sawyer: That little place you always wanted, George.
Ben: Sorry?
Sawyer: What, don’t you read? It’s from Of Mice and Men. You’d like it. Puppies get killed.
[later]
Ben [after quoting the book]: It’s from Of Mice and Men. Don’t you read?

(4×04)

[Locke brings VALIS to Ben’s latest cell.]
Ben: From my own bookshelf.
Locke: Help you pass the time.
Ben: I’ve already read it.
Locke: You might catch something you missed the second time around.

(5×06)

Jack [worried about their flight]: How can you read?
Ben: My mother taught me.

(5×09)

Jack: So where do we go from here?
Sawyer: I’m working on it.
Jack: Really? Because it looked to me like you were reading a book.
Sawyer: I heard once Winston Churchill read a book every night, even during the Blitz. He said it made him think better. It’s how I like to run things. I think. I’m sure that doesn’t mean that much to you, ’cause back when you were calling the shots, you pretty much just reacted. See, you didn’t think, Jack, and as I recall, a lot of people ended up dead.