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
Gertrude Stein quotes about
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
We are always the same age inside.
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
A diary means yes indeed.
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.