I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I… — Robert Stone Allegiance Copy Share Image
“He had undertaken a little assay at the good fight and found that neither the good nor the fight was left to… — Robert Stone Life Copy Share Image
“How learned and fine we believed ourselves to be! How shitty of the world to deal with us this way.” — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“There were icons of the Magdalen on the walls and paintings in the Western manner, all kitsch, trash. Mary M., Lucas thought,… — Robert Stone Big city Copy Share Image
I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in… — Robert Stone Chapters Copy Share Image
I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I… — Robert Stone America Copy Share Image
“Sleeping and waking, the notion of being lost, of having wandered out of the right life, kept turning up in different guises.… — Robert Stone Life Copy Share Image
I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it. — Robert Stone Attachment Copy Share Image
“Like many visitors, they had been unnerved by the inimitable creepiness of the Holy Sepulchre, a grimly gaudy, theopathical Turkish bathhouse where… — Robert Stone Children Copy Share Image
“He sat desiring the girl - a speed-hardened straw-colored junkie stewardess, a spoiled Augustana Lutheran, compounded of airport Muzak and beauty parlor… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Stone Alive Copy Share Image
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought… — Robert Stone Acid Copy Share Image
It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it. — Robert Stone Country Copy Share Image
The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer,… — Robert Stone Able Copy Share Image
“The mixtures of shells and light makes you confused and unhappy. One side employing the force of he other merging. You're one… — Robert Stone Light Copy Share Image
“The richest fuckin' people in the richest country in the world - you gonna tell them some little guy in a hole… — Robert Stone South america Copy Share Image
“The border between the State of Israel and the occupied Gaza Strip had always reminded him of the line between Tijuana and… — Robert Stone Israel Copy Share Image
“He would keep what he would always believe had to be a false memory of her falling like a booted Icarus out… — Robert Stone Electric light Copy Share Image
You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want… — Robert Stone Depends Copy Share Image
“I’ve been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this.” — Robert Stone Cynical-humor Copy Share Image
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with… — Robert Stone Books Copy Share Image
