Gertrude Stein Quotes


Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.


Citations

Stein, Gertrude. Everybody's Autobiography. Random House, 1937.

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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
  • Born: February 3, 1874
  • Died: July 27, 1946
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer, Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Art Collector

Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny West neighborhood and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet.