Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Steinwas an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures in modernism in literature and art would meet, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 February 1874
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Let me listen to me and not to them.
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.