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
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.
sheep goats concern
The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.
caviar champagne ritual
It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.
sae flesh cry
Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.
life past hands
People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.
writing thinking order
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.
mother men
Men often marry their mothers.
wheels fixed ends
You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.
intelligent ifs ought
No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.
running heart two
There are two ways of doing battle against Disgrace. You may live it down; or you may run away from it and hide. The first method is heart-breaking, but sure. The second cannot be relied upon because of the uncomfortable way Disgrace has of turning up at your heels.
tired men hearing
I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.
inspirational years months
A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
adventure baghdad happens
But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.