A Quote After My Own Heart from Robert Louis Stevenson

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in…when I sat by the roadside, I would either read or a pencil and a penny version-book would be in my hand, to note the features of the scene or commemorate some halting stanzas. Thus I lived with words.”

~ Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 – 1894

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Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, really needs no further introduction, but I do love this quot...