I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
