The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
-
-
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON






