Quotes by Gertrude Stein

Explore a curated collection of 60 quotes by Gertrude Stein. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms — Gertrude Stein
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing. — Gertrude Stein
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. — Gertrude Stein
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book. — Gertrude Stein
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you coul — Gertrude Stein
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. — Gertrude Stein
It is very easy to love alone. — Gertrude Stein
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do. — Gertrude Stein
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. — Gertrude Stein
A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound) — Gertrude Stein
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. — Gertrude Stein
We are always the same age inside. — Gertrude Stein
If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. — Gertrude Stein
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is. — Gertrude Stein
The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other. — Gertrude Stein
When you get there there isn't any there there. — Gertrude Stein
You have to learn to do everything even to die. — Gertrude Stein
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. — Gertrude Stein
She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and — Gertrude Stein
Nothing has happened today except kindness. — Gertrude Stein