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.
Life is a means of extracting fiction. - Robert Stone
Life is a means of extracting fiction.
- Robert Stone
One does not consider style, because style is. - Robert Stone
One does not consider style, because style is.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful. - Robert Stone
The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.
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