← Back to quotes

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for… — Robert Louis Stevenson

Essay

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1881
★ 1.9
Other tags relating to this quote
Topic
BooksLife
Medium
Essay
Time
1881
Person
Robert Louis Stevenson
Provenance
Current citation
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Original citation
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

Related quotes

Other quotes that share a subject, a time, or a voice with this one.

Other media

Works in other forms that share a subject with this one.

Other media onSubject·Life