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
memorable sight should
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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.
book names kim
Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
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.
travel sound different
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
land acres care
No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.
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.
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.
nerves use way
Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.
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.
struggle memorable looks
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
inspirational women mean
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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.