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.

D. Toklas on September 8 1907 on Toklas' first day in Paris at Sarah and Michael Stein's apartment. Toklas which became a literary bestseller.

". The advent of this book elevated Stein from the relative obscurity of cult literary figure into the light of mainstream attention. She was born in West Allegheny (Pittsburgh) Pennsylvania raised in Oakland California and moved to Paris in 1903 making France her home for the remainder of her life.