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