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It's all about letting the story take over.

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Robert Stone
Age: 77 †
Born: 1937
Born: August 21
Died: 2015
Died: January 10
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Brooklyn
New York
Robert Anthony Stone
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Stories
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Letting

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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.
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I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.
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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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I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.
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I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.
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I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.
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When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.
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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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It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.
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There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is.’
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