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
giving world littles
Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.
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.
land people magic
I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty.
doors way hell
I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.
unique magic once-in-a-lifetime
To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.
monday morning typewriters
Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.
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.
taming shrews savages
Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
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'.
dissatisfaction
I like any place that isn't here.
writing thinking order
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.
baseball games balls
Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.
batteries sparks vitality
A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.
moon two four
The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.