All ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Quotes about “Books”

“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.”
“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.”
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.”
“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.”
“If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.”
“If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.”
“Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!”
“Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!”
“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.”
“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.”
“The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.”
“The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.”
“Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.”
“Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.”
“The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.”
“The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.”

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