1. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” ― Stephen King
2. “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” ― J.D. Salinger
3. “I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.” ― Colette
4. “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” ― Charles Dickens
5. “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” ― Cormac McCarthy
6. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” ― Harper Lee
7. “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.” – Emma Donoghue
8. “He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.” ― Joseph Heller
9. “What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote, and brings to birth in us also the creative impulse.” ― E.M. Forster
10. “One never can tell from the sidewalk just what the view is to someone on the inside, looking out.” ― George Ade
11. “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” ― Oscar Wilde
12. “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” ― C.S. Lewis
13. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ― Sylvia Plath
14. “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” ― Lewis Carroll
15. “Perhaps no man could appreciate his own world until he had seen it from space.” ― Arthur C. Clarke, A Fall of Moondust
16. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” ― Marthe Troly-Curtin
17. “If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” — T.S. Eliot
18. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” ― J.K. Rowling
19. “Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.” ― Oscar Wilde
20. “Who could refrain, that had a heart to love, and in that heart courage to make love known?” — William Shakespeare
21. “The crown of literature is poetry.” ― William Somerset Maugham
22. “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” ― J.D. Salinger
23. “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling
24. “Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.” ― Truman Capote
25. “It sounds plausible enough tonight but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.” ― H.G. Wells
26. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― André Gide
27. “I’m choosing happiness over suffering. I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
28. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” ― J.M. Barrie
29. “Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.” ― Virginia Woolf
30. “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer” — Douglas Adams
31. “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”Ralph Ellison
32. “The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.” ― Virginia Woolf
33. “It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.” ― Henry James
34. “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” – Mary Shelley
35. “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.” ― Mark Twain
36. “Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” ― Maya Angelou
37. “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” ― David Foster Wallace
38. “Be yourself and people will like you.” ― Jeff Kinney
39. “After all, tomorrow is another day.” ― Margaret Mitchell
40. “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas
41. “When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.” ― Roxane Gay
42. “Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.” ― Tahereh Mafi
43. “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” ― Oscar Wilde
44. “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” ― Ralph Ellison
45. “One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
46. “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
47. “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” ― Cassandra Clare
48. “The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
49. “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.” ― G. K. Chesterton
