Quotes by Gertrude Stein

“You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance.”

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

“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 a...”

“I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing”

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

“A FEATHER.A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.”

“I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.”

“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ”

“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”

“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, ...”

“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 wher...”

“It is very easy to love alone.”

“It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,”

“Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world...”

“I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.”

“She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. He never said anything. She was afraid then, she was one needing charming stories and happy tellin...”

“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.”

“For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.”

“The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection of the objects he has put into his pictures and he lives in the reflections of his pictures, a wri...”