Quotes by Robert Stone

• 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.
• Life is a means of extracting fiction.
• It's all about letting the story take over.
• It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?
• What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.
• 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.
• Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
• 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.
• It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.
• I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.