Books Quotes by Gertrude Stein

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

— Gertrude Stein

Remarks are not literature.

— Gertrude Stein

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Gertrude Stein

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

— Gertrude Stein

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

War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing…

— Gertrude Stein

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could…

— Gertrude Stein

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought…

— Gertrude Stein

“She always says that americans can understand spaniards. That they are the only two western nations that can realize abstraction. That in…

— Gertrude Stein

“I always say that you cannot tell what a picture really is or what an object really is until you dust it…

— Gertrude Stein

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought…

— Gertrude Stein

“It is a very strange feeling when one is loving a clock that is to every one of your class of living…

— Gertrude Stein