Quote 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…

— Robert Stone

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

— Robert Stone

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

— 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 .…

— Robert Stone

“How learned and fine we believed ourselves to be! How shitty of the world to deal with us this way.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— Robert Stone

One does not consider style, because style is.

— Robert Stone