Quote #49

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

More from Gertrude Stein

  1. Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
  2. I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
  3. I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real …
  4. In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
  5. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.
  6. Growing has no connection with audience. Audience has no connection with identity. Identity has no connection with a universe. A universe h…
  7. When you are writing before there is an audience anything written is as important as any other thing and you cherish anything and everythin…
  8. It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

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