Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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 Stevenson

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.592, Jazzybee Verlag

• 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.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Weed, Crazy, Writing

• 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.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Writing, Two, Literature

  Memories and Portraits ch. 10 (1887)

• The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Pregnancy, Sensual

  'On some technical Elements of Style in Literature' (1885)

• The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Writing, Mean, Literature

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