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.
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 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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writer… - Robert Stone
I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writer…
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