Gertrude Stein Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspirational, Women, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.14, Vintage

• Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

  Gertrude Stein

  Believe, Air, Literature

  Written in 1895 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College. Published as "Form and Intelligibility" in the Radcliffe Manuscripts, 1949.

• There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Boyfriend, Depressing, Father

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.146, Vintage

• Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

  Gertrude Stein

  Bored, Literature, Scared

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.94, Random House

• The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

  Gertrude Stein

  Science, Doe, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.66, Random House

• I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Mouths, Portraits

  Gertrude Stein, Robert Bartlett Haas (1971). “A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein”

• It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

  Gertrude Stein

  Funny, Strong, Men

  Gertrude Stein (1945). “Wars I Have Seen”, New York : Random House

• If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Hills, Walks

  Gertrude Stein (1969). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

• I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

  Gertrude Stein

  Views, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.2090, e-artnow

• Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

  Gertrude Stein

  Sex, Writing, Hygiene

• An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Audience

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “How to Write”, p.11, Courier Corporation

• A diary means yes indeed.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mean, Diaries, Literature

• What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

  Gertrude Stein

  Aquarius, Answers, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

• Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Interesting, Literature, Doing Nothing

  "The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation".

• I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

  Gertrude Stein

  Patience, Literature, Patient

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.58, Taylor & Francis

• Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

  Gertrude Stein

  Unhappy Childhood, People, Literature

  Quoted by Thornton Wilder in December 14-15, 1956, interview with Richard Goldstone. "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", 1958.

• I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

  Gertrude Stein

  Desire, Literature, Want

  Everybody's Autobiography ch. 3 (1937)

• Remarks aren't literature.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Crafts, Remarks

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ch. 7 (1933)

• Remarks are not literature.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Literature, Remarks

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ch. 7 (1933)

• History takes time. History makes memory.

  Gertrude Stein

  Memories, History, Literature

• Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

  Gertrude Stein

  Reality, Two, Literature

  Afterword to an edition on "What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them", as quoted by Robert Haas in a January 1946 interview,

• Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

  Gertrude Stein

  Wish, Literature, Misery

• I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

  Gertrude Stein

  Time, Believe, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.109, Vintage

• Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

  Gertrude Stein

  Luxury, Rose, Literature

  "Sacred Emily" (1913). Frequently misquoted as "a rose is a rose is a rose." The allusion is not to a flower but to English painter Francis Rose.

• Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Finding The One, Literature, Disillusionment

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.761, e-artnow

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