Writing Quotes by Gertrude Stein

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

— Gertrude Stein

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

— Gertrude Stein

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and…

— Gertrude Stein

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

— Gertrude Stein

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing…

— Gertrude Stein

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be…

— Gertrude Stein

“What is a sentence. A sentence is left to be alright and therefor (sic) they are barely here. A day is additional…

— Gertrude Stein

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other…

— Gertrude Stein

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

— Gertrude Stein

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one…

— Gertrude Stein

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to…

— Gertrude Stein

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the…

— 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

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

— Gertrude Stein

I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.

— Gertrude Stein

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves.…

— Gertrude Stein

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

— Gertrude Stein

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

— Gertrude Stein

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about…

— Gertrude Stein

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

— 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

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no…

— Gertrude Stein

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience…

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Gertrude Stein

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

— Gertrude Stein