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Gertrude Stein
20 QuotesQuotes by Gertrude Stein
"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."
"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."
"In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling."
"You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance."
"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."
"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."
"In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling."
"You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance."
"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."
"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."
"In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling."
"You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance."
"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."
"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."
"In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling."
"You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance."
"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."
"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."
"In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling."
"You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance."