/lit/ - Literature

Every time I read something interesting I get the urge to weave it into my book, imagining some scholar adding footnotes to explain all of my references a hundred years from now after carefully researching my life and influences and closely reading for even the most subtle allusions
In reality it probably just seems like jarring nonsensical dogshit

what books deal with cultivating courage and developing a strong will. or at least could inspire it
I want to be brave