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Robert Stone
American
Novelist
About the author
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,
American
Novelist
#Writing
Life is a means of extracting fiction.
Robert Stone,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Fiction
It's all about letting the story take over.
Robert Stone,
American
Novelist
It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?
Robert Stone,
American
Novelist
What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.
Robert Stone,
American
Novelist
#America
I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.
Robert Stone,
American
Novelist
#Now
#War
#Society
#Trying
#America
#Soldiers
Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
Robert Stone,
American
Novelist
#Tomorrow
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
Robert Stone,
American
Novelist
#Time
#Words
#Questions
#Difference
#Reality
#Silence
#Religious
#Feelings
It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.
Robert Stone,
American
Novelist
#Country
#Name
I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.
Robert Stone,
American
Novelist