Robert Stone Quotes (22 Quotes)

One doesn't consider style, because style is.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.

It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that

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At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow

I thought a lot about my attitude toward the world, toward fear and violence, and that I had something to say about these things. If you had asked me then what I was writing about, I would have said, in a kind of Kerouac-like romantic vein, 'America.'

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

It's just devastation. I'm tickled nobody was hurt.

One is improvising when one writes, and you pick up in the same way a musician starts to improvise and detect the inner structure of what he's playing - that's the way it works in the writing of a novel. You pick up the beat.

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I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.

I am trying - in a good cause - to crowd people out of their own minds and occupy their space. I want them to stop being themselves for the moment, I want them to stop thinking, and I want to occupy their heads.

It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.

It's all about letting the story take over.

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The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

A surprising number of respectable people, which includes the press corps, diplomats, civil servants, and the military, too, were involved, to some degree or other, in both drugs and gold.