Quotes by Edna Ferber

About Edna Ferber:

Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1929; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), and Giant (1952; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie).
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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

Edna Ferber

It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.

Edna Ferber

[She had] a gay adventuresome spirit that was never to die, though it led her into curious places and she often found, at the end, only a trackless waste from which she had to retrace her steps painfully. But always, to her, red and green cabbages we...

Edna Ferber

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

Edna Ferber

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.

Edna Ferber
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Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

Edna Ferber

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Edna Ferber

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Edna Ferber

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Edna Ferber

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Edna Ferber

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Edna Ferber

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Edna Ferber

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.

Edna Ferber

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

Edna Ferber

Then there were long, lazy summer afternoons when there was nothing to do but read. And dream. And watch the town go by to supper. I think that is why our great men and women so often have sprung from small towns, or villages. They have had time to d...

Edna Ferber

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

Edna Ferber

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relievin...

Edna Ferber

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Edna Ferber

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Edna Ferber

Author Bio

  • NameEdna Ferber
  • DescriptionNovelist, playwright
  • BornAugust 15, 1885
  • DiedApril 16, 1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Novelist; Writer