Quotes by : Edna Ferber

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.....

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

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

The leading lady had a large and saving sense of humor. But there is nothing that blunts the sense of....

About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people....

[She had] a gay adventuresome spirit that was never to die, though it led her into curious places and....

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.....

That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing....

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life....

A life like this develops the comedy sense. You can't play tragedy while you're living it.