Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“I always say that you cannot tell what a picture really is or what an object really is until you dust it… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“She always says that americans can understand spaniards. That they are the only two western nations that can realize abstraction. That in… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“It is a very strange feeling when one is loving a clock that is to every one of your class of living… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“What is the answer?" [ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ] In that case, what is the question?” — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image