Marjie Shemanski

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
― Mark Twain

“You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place
between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting...

It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
― Gertrude Stein