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.
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.
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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.
After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.
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.