“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”-Gertrude Stein
After three years of “loafing” (researching, living, philosophizing, and planning things in my head), I started writing my first book today.
Wish me luck!
Here’s to a creative 2017 for us all.
Gertrude Stein Quote
Including novellas…
Gertrude Stein at 3
Gertrude Stein by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913
Gertrude Stein on the cover of the 11 September 1933 issue of TIME Magazine
Gertrude Stein: 3 February 1874-27 July 1946
Gertrude Stein Quote
Gertrude Stein was born on 3 February 1874.
Gertrude Stein by Félix Vallotton, 1907.
“It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
“Let me listen to me and not to them.”
“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous.”
“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”-Gertrude Stein
There are no voices here, just 86-year-old moving images. A frayed, preserved receipt from a beautiful and warm world long gone. Memories turned to history.
“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”-Gertrude Stein
My newly acquired second-hand copy of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Is the sticky note to highlight or to hide? I'll have to wait until page 269 to find out.
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