More from Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882).Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
“Yoshida-Torajiro”, Familiar Studies of Men and Books, p. 175 (1902).
More about reading
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
