Books Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Certainly, if money could have been raised upon the book, Robert Herrick would long ago have sacrificed that last possession: but the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“By what I have read in books, I think few that have held a pen were ever really wearied, or they would…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Stevenson had originally conceived the novel as a straightforward horror yarn, involving a thief that invents a potion that changes his physical…

— Robert Louis Stevenson