About Edna Ferber

Edna Ferberwas an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Bigand Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960.

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Life can’t defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death.

Edna Ferber

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Edna Ferber

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Edna Ferber

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

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

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

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

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.

Edna Ferber

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets.

Edna Ferber

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

A woman can look both moral and exciting… if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Edna Ferber

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Edna Ferber

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there’s something wrong with American politics.

Edna Ferber

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

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

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

American novelist, short story writer and playwright