Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.” — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier. — 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
