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Quotes by "Edna Ferber"

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.
— Edna Ferber
Tags: writers-and-writing
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 childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
— Edna Ferber
Tags: writing, on-writing
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 cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
— Edna Ferber
Tags: which, more, your, you
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.
— Edna Ferber
Tags: next, tree, man, beautiful
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
— Edna Ferber
Tags: past, people, business, you
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
— Edna Ferber
Tags: like, struggle, you, death
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
— Edna Ferber
Tags: roast, beef, philosophy, only, food
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
— Edna Ferber
Tags: than, mean, big, better
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