All Edna Ferber Quotes
- Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been… Any
- But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like… Burgundy
- Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and… Absorbing
- I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in… Around Outside
- Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel,… Cold
- Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to. All
- Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your… Beef
- I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours. Acceptance
- The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will… Blank
- Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Beef
- To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only… Alive
- When the minds have learn't to mingle, when no thought is wholly one's own, and each has taken too much of the other ever to… Alone
- Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. Death
- It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die and, then it's too late. Die