Robert Stone
Robert Stone
Robert Stonewas an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 August 1937
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
dream writing creating
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.
art real fiction
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, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is.’
dog morning light
I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.
kids care stuff
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.
letting-go stories
It's all about letting the story take over.
regret editors want
You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.
writing style doe
One does not consider style, because style is.
spiritual thinking attachment
I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.
life mean fiction
Life is a means of extracting fiction.
lonely world literature
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.
writing trying firsts
I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.
giving-up typewriters smoking
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.
running morning tomorrow
Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
moving cutting hair
When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.