4,370 Quotes About Literature

This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking.

I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.

Fuck the literary world. I wanted to write something I'd want to read. And isn't that what art is about, anyway? Expressing yourself the way you want to. Maybe that's why I had been so scared to actually finish and release a book.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for our souls – an energy force that wants nothing more than for us to honor and accept who we are and discover what we’re meant to do in the world.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

After all, tomorrow is another day!

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.