The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“Conversation lets you be an artist every time you open your mouth--or shut it. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The most important… — Margaret Shepherd Copy Share Image
Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be — Quintin Jardine Copy Share Image
“Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of… — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“In 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson received a letter from a Vermont girl named Annie Ide. Her birthday fell on Christmas, she said,… — Greg Ross Copy Share Image
“My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. --Robert Louis Stevenson — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
“William Wordsworth was said to have walked 180,000 miles in his lifetime. Charles Dickens captured the ecstasy of near-madness and insomnia in… — Ben Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Idleness as a waste of time is a damaging notion put about by its spiritually vacant enemies. The fact that idling can… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“...I shall let [Anne] Wallace put the case herself, at what I think is necessary length: 'As travel in general becomes physically… — Robin Jarvis Copy Share Image
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. —ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys'… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer Made my mate." —Robert Taylor on… — Victoria Wilson Copy Share Image
“She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“Those without a roof over their heads could escape with Wolfe, Kafka, or Robert Louis Stevenson and have shelter from the heat… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
I'd like to go back in time and haunt Robert Louis Stevenson during his years in the South Pacific. — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
“...Robert Louis Stevenson presents a character who, in London at night, is astonished 'to walk for such a long time in such… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
