Robert Stone
Robert Stone
Robert Stonewas an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 August 1937
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?
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Even though drug mysticism is a vulgarization of the real thing, I think it made me come to terms with my own religious impulses.
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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 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.'
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I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.
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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.
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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.
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I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.
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It's all about letting the story take over.
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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.
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It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.
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