Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 November 1850
life-lesson book writing
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.
writing two literature
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.
believe writing mind
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
weed crazy writing
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
running country writing
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.
book writing letters
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.
hate writing i-hate
I hate to write, but I love to have written.
mean writing literature
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.
book writing ends
If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.
writing sleep men
All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.
writing doctors mind
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.
writing misunderstood understood
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
book writing mean
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.
reading writing easy
It takes hard writing to make easy reading.