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

One does not consider style, because style is.

- 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…

- 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…

- Robert Stone

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

- Robert Stone

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

- 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…

- 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…

- Robert Stone