“A novel is what you dream in your night sleep.”

— Gertrude Stein, "The Superstitions of Fred Anneday, Annday, Anday; a Novel of Real Life" (1935)

About Gertrude Stein

1874 – 1946

American writer and art collector who lived in Paris, author of 'The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas' and 'Paris France'.

“The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.”

“One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”

“It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.”

“Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”