Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

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.


Truth of Intercourse. - Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)


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.

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.