Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber
Edna Ferberwas an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 August 1887
CityKalamazoo, MI
CountryUnited States of America
emotions fine injustice order passionate poisoned somewhat
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must he somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, faultfinding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice -- they all make fine fuel.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle
lonely past people
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
writing climbing interesting
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
baby real play
All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.
diversity mind dying
A closed mind is a dying mind.
girl new-york air
In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.
two people emeralds
There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.
home clothes everyday
... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.
inspirational women mean
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
sweet-love writing emo-love
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.
life women struggle
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
life thinking way
Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?
struggle memorable looks
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.