Robert Stone Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Robert Stone

  Moving, Writing, Space

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

  Robert Stone

  Moving, Writing, Cutting

• 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.

  Robert Stone

  Writing, Trying, Firsts

• 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.

  Robert Stone

  Dream, Writing, Creating

• 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

• One does not consider style, because style is.

  Robert Stone

  Writing, Style, Doe

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