Books Quote by 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

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in…

— Salman Rushdie

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

— Virginia Woolf

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily…

— Lynn Coady

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

— Anna Quindlen

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't…

— Nicholson Baker

In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Literature is my Utopia

— Helen Keller

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

— Danilo Kis

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn