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
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
One must dare to be happy.
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
The artist works by locating the world in himself
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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.
You have to know what you want to get it.
Money is always there but the pockets change.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.