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
texas want ifs
If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.
summer spring promise
Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.
men flavor yeast
The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.
travel sound different
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
color cities people
There are people who have a penchant for cities-more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling their rhythm and pulsebeats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction. It is a thing that cannot be acquired.
special youth young
I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.
children book generations
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
frustration clouds irritation
One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.
book names kim
Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
memorable sight should
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
too-much literature littles
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
dirty literature nasty
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
wall writing views
The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible.
beautiful men tree
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.