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
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.