Robert Stone Quotes

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• 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.

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  Moving, Writing, Space

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• Life is a means of extracting fiction.

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  Life, Mean, Fiction

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• That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

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  Lonely, Literature, World

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

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  Running, Morning, Tomorrow

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• When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

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  Moving, Writing, Cutting

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• If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

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  Want, Havens, Knows

  Robert Stone (1997). “Dog Soldiers”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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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  Writing, Trying, Firsts

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• The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.

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  Giving Up, Typewriters, Smoking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Regret, Editors, Want

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• It's all about letting the story take over.

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  Letting Go, Stories

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Judging, Doing You

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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.

  Robert Stone

  Reading, Writing, Literature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Passion, Night, Quality

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Differences, Alive

  Robert Stone (1997). “Dog Soldiers”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One does not consider style, because style is.

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  Writing, Style, Doe

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• What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

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  America, Worst

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• The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.

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  Hurt, Teaching, Feelings

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• 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.

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  Dream, Writing, Creating

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• The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

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  Heart, Desire, Rafters

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• The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.

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  Want, Knows

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• There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is.’

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  Art, Real, Fiction

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• 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.

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  Dog, Morning, Light

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

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Attachment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Trying, Way, Novelists

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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!"

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  Character, Mean, Space

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