Edna Ferber

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

— Edna Ferber

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

— Edna Ferber

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

— Edna Ferber

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

— Edna Ferber

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

— Edna Ferber

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

— Edna Ferber

celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

— Edna Ferber

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

— Edna Ferber

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

— Edna Ferber

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they…

— Edna Ferber

“Sweat and blood and health and youth go into every cabbage. Did you know that, Julie? One doesn't despise them as food,…

— Edna Ferber

Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the…

— Edna Ferber

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

— Edna Ferber

A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a…

— Edna Ferber

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas…

— Edna Ferber

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

“In his way and in his day he was a very modern father. "I want you to see all kinds," he would…

— Edna Ferber

“For equipment she had youth, curiosity, a steel strong frame...four hundred ninety-seven dollars; and a gay adventuresome spirit that was never to…

— Edna Ferber

I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are…

— Edna Ferber

“Some day the marriageable age for women will be advanced from twenty to thirty, and the old maid line will be changed…

— Edna Ferber

When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it…

— Edna Ferber

I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours,…

— Edna Ferber

“But best of all, the fascination of the People I'd Like to Know. They pop up now and then in the shifting…

— Edna Ferber

When the minds have learn't to mingle, when no thought is wholly one's own, and each has taken too much of the…

— Edna Ferber

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

— Edna Ferber

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

— Edna Ferber

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

— Edna Ferber

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

— Edna Ferber

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

— Edna Ferber

But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.

— Edna Ferber

Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.

— Edna Ferber

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

— Edna Ferber

“It is given to very few women to know the beauty of a man's real friendship.”

— Edna Ferber

[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.

— Edna Ferber

A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.

— Edna Ferber

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

— Edna Ferber

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

— Edna Ferber

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do…

— Edna Ferber

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

— Edna Ferber

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

— Edna Ferber