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Gertrude Stein Quotes

Gertrude Stein quotes about writing

American Author February 3, 1874 – July 29, 1946

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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. Gertrude Stein
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, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything. Gertrude Stein
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. Gertrude Stein
What is a sentence. A sentence is left to be alright and therefor (sic) they are barely here. A day is additional with there having been with a condition of remaining all day which it is partly that they like to look about made it for them in reference as they knew that is whenever they met by the arrangement which had been made for them in the mean time. What is a sentence. They need not be having them made by them. in 'Sentences' chapter, p. 175 my edition, How to Write. Gertrude Stein
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. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with..."
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "It takes a heap of loafing to write a book."
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do..."
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. Gertrude Stein
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. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing."
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to..."
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write. Gertrude Stein

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