If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about. — Robert Stone Havens Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid to ask for a rise, Sagittarius. Your boss always pay you less than your work is actually worth!” — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I… — Robert Stone Code Copy Share Image
You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other… — Robert Stone Character Copy Share Image
The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're… — Robert Stone Creating Copy Share Image
“My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism.” — Robert Stone Optimism Copy Share Image
I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm… — Robert Stone 19th century Copy Share Image
I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist. — Robert Stone Fairs Copy Share Image
It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that? — Robert Stone Creepy Copy Share Image
What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export. — Robert Stone America Copy Share Image
“See, it's all a movie in this country and if you wait long enough you get your happy ending. Until somebody else's… — Robert Stone Happy ending Copy Share Image
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is… — Robert Stone Art Copy Share Image
“The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in… — Robert Stone Education Copy Share Image
The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings. — Robert Stone Feelings Copy Share Image
The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful. — Robert Stone Knows Copy Share Image
“The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own… — Robert Stone American culture Copy Share Image
I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner. — Robert Stone Anybody Copy Share Image
Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow? — Robert Stone Morning Copy Share Image
I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then… — Robert Stone Dog Copy Share Image
When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair. — Robert Stone Crafts Copy Share Image
“But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book.… — Robert Stone America Copy Share Image
I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill… — Robert Stone Doing you Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely. — Robert Stone Books Copy Share Image
