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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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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It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?
american-novelist
I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.
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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.
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There is a certain reverence for the sociopath as a major cultural type in American society, along with the frontiersman, the puritan and the outlaw.
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I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writers like Barth and John Hawkes. I did not care for the post-modernist stuff; my allegiance was to realism.
country thinking names
It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it
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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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Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
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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.