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title: "25 Writing Quotes By Gertrude Stein"
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> [I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-write-for-myself-and-strangers-the-strangers-dear-readers-are-an/)

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> [Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/writing-and-reading-is-to-me-synonymous-with-existing/)

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> [A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/a-writer-should-write-with-his-eyes-and-a-painter-paint-with-his-ears/)

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> [It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/it-takes-a-heap-of-loafing-to-write-a-book/)

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> [Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/don-t-write-about-what-you-don-t-know-even-if-you-don-t-know-it/)

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> [I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-am-writing-for-myself-and-strangers-this-is-the-only-way-that-i-can/)

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> [If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/if-you-write-a-half-hour-a-day-it-makes-a-lot-of-writing-year-by-year/)

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> [there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-is-no-pleasure-so-sweet-as-the-pleasure-of-spending-money-but/)

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> [I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-cannot-write-too-much-upon-how-necessary-it-is-to-be-completely/)

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> [I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-have-heard-will-honeycomb-say-a-woman-seldom-writes-her-mind-but-in/)

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> [I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-have-always-noticed-that-in-portraits-of-really-great-writers-the/)

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> [To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/to-write-is-to-write-is-to-write-is-to-write-is-to-write-is-to-write/)

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> [One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/one-of-the-pleasant-things-those-of-us-who-write-or-paint-do-is-to/)

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> [Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/writer-or-painter-god-parents-are-notoriously-unreliable-that-is/)

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> [it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/it-is-nice-that-nobody-writes-as-they-talk-and-that-the-printed/)

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> [You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/you-will-write-if-you-will-write-without-thinking-of-the-result-in-2/)

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> [What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/what-was-the-use-of-my-having-come-from-oakland-it-was-not-natural-to/)

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> [If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/if-the-communication-is-perfect-the-words-have-life-and-that-is-all/)

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> [An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/an-audience-is-pleasant-if-you-have-it-it-is-flattering-and/)

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> [I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-am-writing-for-myself-and-strangers-this-is-the-only-way-that-i-can-2/)

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> [“What is a sentence. A sentence is left to be alright and therefor (sic) they are barely here. A day is additional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/what-is-a-sentence-a-sentence-is-left-to-be-alright-and-therefor-sic/)

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> [After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/after-all-everybody-that-is-everybody-who-writes-is-interested-in/)

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> [A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/a-writer-must-always-try-to-have-a-philosophy-and-he-should-also-have/)

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> [I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-think-one-is-naturally-impressed-by-anything-having-a-beginning-a/)

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> [“It is a very strange feeling when one is loving a clock that is to every one of your class of living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/it-is-a-very-strange-feeling-when-one-is-loving-a-clock-that-is-to/)

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## More by Gertrude Stein

> [I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-certainly-do-care-for-you-jeff-campbell-less-than-you-are-always/)

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> [Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/americans-are-very-friendly-and-very-suspicious-that-is-what/)

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> [Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/just-as-everybody-has-the-vote-including-women-i-think-children/)

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> [“When is there some discharge when. There never is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/when-is-there-some-discharge-when-there-never-is/)

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> [There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-is-no-such-thing-as-repetition-only-insistance/)

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> [I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-am-i-because-my-little-dog-knows-me-but-creatively-speaking-the/)

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> [How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/how-likely-are-definitions-to-be-pleasurable/)

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> [ “What is the answer?" \[ I \[Alice B Toklas\] was silent \] In that case, what is the question?” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/what-is-the-answer-i-alice-b-toklas-was-silent-in-that-case-what-is/)

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> [More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/more-and-more-i-like-to-take-a-train-i-understand-why-the-french/)

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> [Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/adventure-is-making-the-distant-approach-nearer-but-romance-is-having/)

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> [Forensics is eloquence and reduction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/forensics-is-eloquence-and-reduction/)

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> [Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/eating-and-sleeping-are-not-like-loving-and-breathing-washing-is-not/)

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> [I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-write-for-myself-and-strangers-the-strangers-dear-readers-are-an/)

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> [“A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/a-bag-which-was-left-and-not-only-taken-but-turned-away-was-not-found/)

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> [I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-don-t-envisage-collectivism-there-is-no-such-animal-it-is-always/)

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                        "text": "After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.",
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