The difficulty of literature

[marycatelli]

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

Comments

[alivion.livejournal.com]

Hear hear!
He taught me how to write, you know.

[marycatelli]

It's amazing how much can be learned from the long dead.

[stefan11.livejournal.com]

It's very insightful what he says.

Still, how to do it?

[marycatelli]

That is always the trick.

[john-j-enright.livejournal.com]

Very nice and precise quotation.

[marycatelli]

Glad you like it!