Quotes by Robert Stone

Robert Stone

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.

Differences

Reality

Religious

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

Morning

Running

Tomorrow

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.

Literature

Reading

Writing

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.

Dog

Light

Morning

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

Dog

Fall

War

I think there’s a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.

Attachment

Spiritual

Thinking

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

Novelists

Trying

Way

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.

Firsts

Navy

Typewriters

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.

Care

Kids

Stuff

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.

Firsts

Trying

Writing

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Acid

Alive

America

Art

Attachment

Care

Character

Country

Creating

Cutting

Desire

Differences

Doe

Dog

Doing You

Dream

Editors

Fall

Feelings

Fiction

Firsts

Giving Up

Hard

Havens

Heart

Hurt

Judging

Kids

Knows

Letting Go

Life

Light

Literature

Lonely

Mean

Mess

Morning

Moving

Names

Navy

Night

Novelists

Passion

Quality

Rafters

Reading

Real

Reality

Regret

Religious

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Quotes by Robert Stone

Robert Stone

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 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.

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 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

I think there’s a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

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.

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.

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.

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