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.
Life is a means of extracting fiction. - Robert Stone
Life is a means of extracting fiction.
- Robert Stone
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
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.
One does not consider style, because style is. - Robert Stone
One does not consider style, because style is.
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… - Robert Stone
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…
When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair. - Robert Stone
When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.
If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about. - Robert Stone
If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.
The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake… - Robert Stone
The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake…
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, y… - Robert Stone
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, y…
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely. - Robert Stone
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.
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