Gertrude Stein Quotes

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

I am because my little dog knows me.

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.

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

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

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

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

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

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.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

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.

The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.