NOVELISTS > author > Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein: The contemporary thing...

Source: NOVELISTS

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Source: How Writing Is Written, in Choate Literary Magazine (Feb. 1935
-- Gertrude Stein, (Feb 3 1874-1946), US author; She organized a writer's salon in Paris for post- WW I American expatriates known as the Lost Generation.


(C)2024 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA