Robert W. Service Quotes

"I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there."
- Robert W. Service

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
- Robert W. Service

"The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people."
- Robert W. Service
(Related: Society, People)

"Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse."
- Robert W. Service
(Related: Poetry, Mother, Talent, Public)