Gertrude Stein Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly — Clifton Fadiman
Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have… — Edward Abbey
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just 'talents.'… — Jack Kerouac
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. — Leslie Fiedler
The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two… — Diana Vreeland
ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start… — Frederick Buechner
I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but… — Gertrude Stein
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control… — James A. Baldwin
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the… — James Laughlin
I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping… — Steven Morrissey
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946,… — Jerry Saltz
You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go… — James Thurber
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein] — Ernest Hemingway
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet. — Anne Carson
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said,… — Dorothy Parker
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. — Raymond Queneau

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