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Quote by Gertrude Stein

“There are a lot of other things besides nouns.”

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Gertrude Stein, an American writer born on February 3, 1874, and died on July 27, 1946. She is renowned for her unique writing style and her influence on modernist literature. more

“If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.”

Ifs Want Writing Long Book Running Courses Numbers Sun Fit Degrees Hot Bills Ill Diets Sunday Contempt Beggar Purses Rainy Rainy Day Dice Sleepy Tailors Spleen Hot Sun

Author:Jonathan Swift

“What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some spiritual doubt or conviction, some dimly realized truth I must try to reach and realize.”

Trying Doe Spiritual Sound Realizing Doubt Stones Treats Patterns Conviction Woods Impulse Planes Sculpture Sequence Polish Mold Lyrical Craftsman Fugue

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.”

Trying Firsts Ideas Loses Perfect Interesting Too Much Limits Cease Spoil New Thought Freshness

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.”

Ends Character Stories Used Middle Daughter My Daughter Main Characters Crayon

Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

“A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.”

Heart Intellect Symbols

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.”

Ends Stories

Book:Short stories

Source: Short stories

“I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.”

Invited Premieres

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.”

Feelings Bounds Location

Author:Eudora Welty

“The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.”

Stories Form Effects Depends Short Story

Book:The Writing of Fiction

Source: The Writing of Fiction

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