Literature is my Utopia

“In a word, literature is my utopia.”

— Helen Keller

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my…

— Helen Keller

“Literature is my Utopia...No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends”

— Helen Keller

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious…

— Helen Keller

Love of books is the best of all.

— Jackie Kennedy

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

— George Washington

“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like…

— Frank Smith

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human…

— A.C. Grayling

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

— Hugh Mackay

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought…

— Margaret Atwood

“Book Bans Are Dumb (Sonnet 1587) Book bans are dumb, It makes the mind numb. If banning books were justice, Middle ages would've been…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro