Inspirational Quote by Edna Ferber

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

— Edna Ferber

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

— Edna Ferber

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

— Edna Ferber

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

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

— Edna Ferber

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

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

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

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

But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.

— Edna Ferber

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

“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