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One is improvising when one writes, and you pick up in the same way a musician starts to improvise and detect the inner structure of what he's playing - that's the way it works in the writing of a novel. You pick up the beat. - Robert Stone Quotes

One is improvising when one writes, and you pick up in the same way a musician starts to improvise and detect the inner structure of what he's playing - that's the way it works in the writing of a novel. You pick up the beat.

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can. - Robert Stone Quotes

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner. - Robert Stone Quotes

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

American Novelist

Even though drug mysticism is a vulgarization of the real thing, I think it made me come to terms with my own religious impulses. - Robert Stone Quotes

Even though drug mysticism is a vulgarization of the real thing, I think it made me come to terms with my own religious impulses.

I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again. - Robert Stone Quotes

I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information. - Robert Stone Quotes

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

Writers And Writing

One doesn't consider style, because style is. - Robert Stone Quotes

One doesn't consider style, because style is.

Style

A surprising number of respectable people, which includes the press corps, diplomats, civil servants, and the military, too, were involved, to some degree or other, in both drugs and gold. - Robert Stone Quotes

A surprising number of respectable people, which includes the press corps, diplomats, civil servants, and the military, too, were involved, to some degree or other, in both drugs and gold.

I am trying - in a good cause - to crowd people out of their own minds and occupy their space. I want them to stop being themselves for the moment, I want them to stop thinking, and I want to occupy their heads. - Robert Stone Quotes

I am trying - in a good cause - to crowd people out of their own minds and occupy their space. I want them to stop being themselves for the moment, I want them to stop thinking, and I want to occupy their heads.

It's all about letting the story take over. - Robert Stone Quotes

It's all about letting the story take over.

American Novelist

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