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
marriage hurt stars
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.
adventure baghdad happens
But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
country interesting may
There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.
self-confidence people arrogance
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
baseball dirty men
Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.
girl women hair
[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.
feelings seasons
Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.
memorable writing serenity
Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
ocean wine europe
Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.
long waking hours
A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
writing years done
I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.
witty writing profound
writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.
men would-be tough
If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.
writing climbing mountain
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.