168 Quotes by Edna Ferber

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.

Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.

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 the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.

I like any place that isn't here.

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.