“It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking.”
Richard White - Gaston

“Some people read because they cannot think for themselves.”
Anjelica Huston - Rodmilla

“Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.”
Dame Judi Dench - Iris Murdoch

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something, a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things, that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.”
Richard Griffiths - Hector

“- Phillip: Rupert only publishes books he likes... usually philosophy.
- Janet: Oh. Small print, big words, no sales.
- Brandon: Rupert's extremely radical. Do you know that he selects his books on the assumption that people not only can read but actually can think?”
Farley Granger - Phillip
Joan Chandler - Janet
John Dall - Brandon