Robert Stone Quotes

• People are getting to be a disgrace to the planet.

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• 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.

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• What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn’t export.

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• 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.

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• Life is a means of extracting fiction.

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• It’s easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.

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• It’s all about letting the story take over.

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• I’m not much crazier than anybody else, but I’m not much saner.

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• Everybody’s after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

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• 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.

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• It’s creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?

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Robert Stone (11)

Birth:	21st August, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist, Novelist

About

Robert Stone is an American novelist. He won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1975 for his novel Dog Soldiers and was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and once for the PEN/Faulkner Awards.Dog Soldiers was adapted as a film, Who'll Stop the Rain in 1978 starring Nick Nolte, and Time magazine included it in its TIME 100 Best English language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

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