Robert Stone
Robert Stone
Robert Stonewas an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 August 1937
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
acid mess hard
It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.
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.
hurt differences alive
If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.
character mean space
You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other instead of what they mean to say. The worst purpose of dialogue is to elicit information: "You know why we're out on this space station, Carruthers - to save the universe!"
passion night quality
The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.
want ifs havens
If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.
heart desire rafters
The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.
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.
hurt teaching feelings
The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.
dog war fall
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
america worst
What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.
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.