"A story must simmer in its own juice……" — Edna Ferber

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

39 Quotes by Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have…
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful,…
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks…
Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to…
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment,…
I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is…
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it…
But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what…

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You will always miss her. There will be days - even years from now - when the missing will be… — Kristin Hannah
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"A story must simmer in its own juice……" — Edna Ferber

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