Robert Stone
Robert Stone
Robert Stonewas an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 August 1937
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
reading writing literature
I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more.
running morning tomorrow
Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
typewriters navy handwriting
I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.
trying way novelists
I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.
lonely world literature
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.
spiritual thinking attachment
I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.
letting-go stories
It's all about letting the story take over.
regret editors want
You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.
want knows
The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.
religious reality differences
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.
life mean fiction
Life is a means of extracting fiction.
giving-up typewriters smoking
The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.
acid mess hard
It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.
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