"In a word, literature is my Utopia...." - Quote by Helen Keller

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”

“Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.”

“Be happy. Talk happiness.”

“There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.”

“There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”

“Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.”

“Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.”

“Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”

“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”