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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Reading, Writing, Easy

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspiring, Book, Reading

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4654, e-artnow

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Book, Reading, Names

Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.172, Cooper Square Press