Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
Gertrude Stein
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
Art Collector
Author
Autobiographer
Collector
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Salonnière
Writer
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
Gertrude Stein
Although
Thoughts
Novel
Sleep
Written
Night
Dream
Thought
Waking
More quotes by Gertrude Stein
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Gertrude Stein
The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.
Gertrude Stein
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
Gertrude Stein
It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
Gertrude Stein
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
Gertrude Stein
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
Gertrude Stein
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
Gertrude Stein
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
Gertrude Stein
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
Gertrude Stein
I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.
Gertrude Stein
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein
One must dare to be happy.
Gertrude Stein
I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
Gertrude Stein
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Gertrude Stein
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
Gertrude Stein
The artist works by locating the world in himself
Gertrude Stein
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
Gertrude Stein
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
Gertrude Stein
