The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 09

book is written that has not been largely composed by their assistance.

Literature in many of its branches is no other than the shadow of good talk; but the imitation falls far short of the original in life, freedom, and effect. There are always two to a talk, giving and taking, comparing experience and according conclusions. Talk is fluid, tentative, continually "in further se...