A Quote by Clifton Fadiman

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

Clifton Fadiman

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Clifton Fadiman
American - Writer
May 15, 1904 - June 20, 1999

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

Clifton Fadiman

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

Leslie Fiedler

When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things . Not to invalidate your experience or all the great feelings you have, I tell them. Although poetry may be good for you, it's not therapy. You're making something with words which are visceral, muscular, active, not just markers of how you feel. And we have classes studying William Blake, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Stein.

Anne Waldman

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

Raymond Queneau

Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.

Laura Mullen

[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limited edition, and reading it is anyhow a sort of permanent occupation.

Katherine Anne Porter

I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.

Morrissey

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, “I don’t look like that.” And Picasso replied, “You will.” And he was right.

James Baldwin

I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.

Gertrude Stein

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

Ernest Hemingway

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

Anne Carson

I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in Europe at the time she was alive. I consider my tributes to him my most important works.

Robert Indiana

Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal.

John Cameron Mitchell

Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.