168 Quotes by Edna Ferber

I like any place that isn’t here.

But best of all, the fascination of the People I’d Like to Know. They pop up now and then in the shifting crowds, and are gone the next moment, leaving behind them a vague regret. Sometimes I call them the People I’d Like to Know and sometimes I call them the People I Know I’d Like, but it means much the same. Their faces flash by in the crowd, and are gone, but I recognize them instantly as belonging to my beloved circle of unknown friends.

She was a strange mixture of tomboy and bookworm, which was a mercifully kind arrangement for both body and mind.

What can death do to you at ninety that life hasn’t done to you already!

I don’t know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.

Jane Austen. Anyway, I’m not.

Think of the rotten time Alice would have had in Wonderland if she hadn’t been broad-minded. Take it as it comes.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind’s wheat and the other kind’s emeralds.

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