Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
"Edna Ferber" was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (novel)/So Big (1924), Show Boat (novel)/Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated Show Boat/1927 musical), Cimarron (novel)/Cimarron (1929; made into the Cimarron (1931 film)/1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), and Giant (1952; made into the Giant (1956 film)/1956 Hollywood movie).
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Edna Ferber on Wikipedia.Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.
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.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
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