--- title: "1 Writer Thinks Quotes By Robert Stone" description: "1 Writer Thinks quotes by Robert Stone. Plus more from Robert Stone and more Writer Thinks sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/457/robert-stone-13495_education_the-scene-is-a-writer-s-study-shabby-dra_2275915.png" --- > [“The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in progress. For the past fifty or so, a kind of slow terror has been rising in his breast.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/the-scene-is-a-writer-s-study-shabby-drafty-but-tax-deductible-the/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/457/robert-stone-13495_education_the-scene-is-a-writer-s-study-shabby-dra_2275915.png) ## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/i-was-under-the-influence-of-the-early-modern-masters-fitzgerald-and/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [Life is a means of extracting fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/life-is-a-means-of-extracting-fiction/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/the-desires-of-the-heart-are-as-crooked-as-a-corkscrew/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [“He had undertaken a little assay at the good fight and found that neither the good nor the fight was left to him .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/he-had-undertaken-a-little-assay-at-the-good-fight-and-found-that/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [“How learned and fine we believed ourselves to be! How shitty of the world to deal with us this way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/how-learned-and-fine-we-believed-ourselves-to-be-how-shitty-of-the/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [“There were icons of the Magdalen on the walls and paintings in the Western manner, all kitsch, trash. Mary M., Lucas thought, half hypnotized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/there-were-icons-of-the-magdalen-on-the-walls-and-paintings-in-the/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/i-write-a-very-rough-first-draft-of-every-chapter-then-i-rewrite/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/i-think-everybody-must-be-aware-that-this-society-is-a-whole-lot/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [“Sleeping and waking, the notion of being lost, of having wandered out of the right life, kept turning up in different guises. She imagined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/sleeping-and-waking-the-notion-of-being-lost-of-having-wandered-out/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/i-think-there-s-a-necessity-for-some-attachment-to-the-spiritual/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [“Like many visitors, they had been unnerved by the inimitable creepiness of the Holy Sepulchre, a grimly gaudy, theopathical Turkish bathhouse where their childhood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/like-many-visitors-they-had-been-unnerved-by-the-inimitable/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [“He sat desiring the girl - a speed-hardened straw-colored junkie stewardess, a spoiled Augustana Lutheran, compounded of airport Muzak and beauty parlor school. Her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/he-sat-desiring-the-girl-a-speed-hardened-straw-colored-junkie/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [One does not consider style, because style is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/one-does-not-consider-style-because-style-is/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/if-you-couldn-t-tell-the-difference-between-what-hurt-and-what-didn-t/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/at-the-time-acid-made-me-consider-questions-of-reality-the-difference/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writer-thinks/robert-stone/#itemlist", "name": "1 Writer Thinks Quotes By Robert Stone", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in progress. For the past fifty or so, a kind of slow terror has been rising in his breast. All these pages had seemed necessary. They contain many good things. Ironies. Insights. And yet they seem to have a certain ineffable unsatisfactoriness. There is a word to describe this quality, the writer thinks, a horrible word. The B word. 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