Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. — Edna Ferber Copy Share
It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy. — Edna Ferber Copy Share
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. — Edna Ferber Copy Share
I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the… — Edna Ferber Copy Share
All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like… — Edna Ferber Copy Share
It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few… — Edna Ferber Copy Share
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… — Edna Ferber Copy Share
But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged. — Edna Ferber Copy Share
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share
“Then there were long, lazy summer afternoons when there was nothing to do but read. And dream. And watch the town go by to… — Edna Ferber Copy Share
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. — Edna Ferber Copy Share
Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it? — Edna Ferber Copy Share
