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
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.
philosophy food eye
Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.
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.
book names kim
Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
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.
feelings seasons
Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.
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.
writing climbing mountain
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
texas yesterday alive
Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.
too-late realizing terrible
It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.
texas way easier
Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
texas funeral dozen
I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.
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.