Bits Quote by James Laughlin

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

— Raymond Queneau

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

— Leslie Fiedler

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

— Anne Carson

“I’m a novelist,” Ruth said. “I can’t help it. My narrative preferences are all I’ve got.”

— Ruth Ozeki

“Hercule Poirot went to bed thoughtful. He was fascinated by the problem of personality. To Edmunds, the clerk, Elsa Greer was a hussy, no…

— Agatha Christie

“People in books were always so charming, and all their thoughts and actions so comprehensible. They all invariably had a clear, well-defined object in…

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

“In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken with remorse…

— John Irving

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

— Clifton Fadiman

“When, if only for a moment, the novelist steps out of the creator's role, what roles are there for the novelist to step into?…

— John Irving

Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an…

— Laura Mullen

“Hemingway studied, as models, the novels of Knut Hamsun and Ivan Turgenev. Isaac Bashevis Singer, as it happened, also chose Hamsun and Turgenev as…

— Annie Dillard