Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber
Edna Ferberwas an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 August 1887
CityKalamazoo, MI
CountryUnited States of America
land people magic
I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty.
mistake people mad
About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.
names people giving
Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.
hate people complaining
don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
self-confidence people arrogance
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
color cities people
There are people who have a penchant for cities-more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling their rhythm and pulsebeats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction. It is a thing that cannot be acquired.
two people emeralds
There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.
lonely past people
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.
death defeat itself life love lover until writer
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
realize terrible until
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
food roast
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
texas yesterday alive
Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.
giving world littles
Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.
intelligent ifs ought
No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.