Quotes by : Edna Ferber

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

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle....

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

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.....

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

Then there were long, lazy summer afternoons when there was nothing to do but read. And dream. And watch....

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

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

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to....

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causes you to....