Robert Stone may refer to:
The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.
It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it
What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.
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
It's all about letting the story take over.
Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.
The desires of the heart. . . are as crooked as a corkscrew.
I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.
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.
The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.
It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.
If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.
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!"
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 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 try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.
When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.