Home » Quote » Gertrude Stein » „It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.“ „It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.“ — Gertrude Stein Tags:Books Related quotes „A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.“ — Ernest Hemingway „I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.“ — Michel Foucault „I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.“ — Andrea Dworkin „Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.“ — F. Scott Fitzgerald „This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.“ — Stephen King