Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it. They alone take his meaning; they find private messages, assurances of love, and expressions of gratitude, dropped at every corner. The public is but a generous patron who defrays the postage.


Travels with a Donkey (1879)

Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it. They alone take his meaning; they find private messages,...

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it. They alone take his meaning; they find private messages,...

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it. They alone take his meaning; they find private messages,...

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it. They alone take his meaning; they find private messages,...