Books Quote by Edna Ferber Download Open image “Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.” — Edna Ferber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Should Sight Writers Writing
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch. — Aaron Sorkin 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 supper. I think that is why our great men and women so often have sprung from small towns, or villages. They have had time to dream in their adolescence. No cars to catch, no matinees, no… — Edna Ferber Copy Share
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image