Can Literary Quotes Help Your Novel?

Many writers add literary allusions to their stories. I did this recently, and I came close to making the mistake of underusing the source material.

The book I included in my story is A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. You can read this book along with us thanks to this Project Gutenberg edition. Try it even if you have a print copy; this edition includes poems that many print editions have left out. You can also peek at vintage illustrations of this book in the article Early Illustrators of a Child’s Garden of Verses.