Latest Robert Stone Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Robert Stone

  Spiritual, Thinking, Attachment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Robert Stone

  Trying, Way, Novelists

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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.

  Robert Stone

  Typewriters, Navy, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Robert Stone

  Giving Up, Typewriters, Smoking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Robert Stone

  Kids, Stuff, Care

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com