#stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#author #focusing #i #i always #ignorant

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#aside #concern #ever #gentle #governor

The famed author Robert Lewis Stevenson declared that he'd trained his Brownies to be writers. As he slept, they would whisper fantastic plots in his ear -- for example, the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and the diabolical Mr. Hyde, and that episode in "Olalla" when a young man from an old Spanish family bites his sister's hand. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#robert-louis-stevenson #writing #family

Mealtime "A mousie squealing in a trap Woke me from my morning nap. Wasn't he so very sweet To tell me it was time to eat?" (From A CAT'S GARDEN OF VERSES) ↗

— Henry N. Beard

#humor #robert-louis-stevenson #humor

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. ↗

— Travis Barker

#descendants #good #really #stevenson #too

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#alexander #breakthrough #discovered #european #few

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#genius #people #right #right thing #right time

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#first #first time #gone #had #how

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#dig #i #intellectual #knows #man

What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#robert-louis-stevenson #death