“Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.”
“The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.”
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
“any book in the world - if there was only one way to read and understand it, what would be the point of reading that book?”
“Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.”
“The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.”