I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves.… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“What is a sentence. A sentence is left to be alright and therefor (sic) they are barely here. A day is additional… — 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
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience… — 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
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
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