Author Quote by Raymond Queneau

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.

— James Laughlin

[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet,…

— Katherine Anne Porter

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation. Raymond Queneau After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are…

— Raymond Queneau

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

I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life…

— Harold E. Varmus

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

— Leslie Fiedler

Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.

— Ian Mcewan

“Any good, persistent, business-minded, prolific writer can succeed if they keep writing and moving forward. For the modern author, that’s excellent news.”

— Sean Platt

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

— Anne Carson

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

“Gertrude Stein, when asked why she wrote, replied "For praise." Lorca said he wrote to be loved. Faulkner said a writer wrote for glory.…

— James Salter

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar