Quotes By Author: Gertrude Stein

“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

“You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting… It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”