But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
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
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 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
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
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged. — 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, passionate remonstrance,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“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 Image
