Edna Ferber Quotes

United States, Playwright
August 15, 1885 – April, 16, 1968.

Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1929; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Giant (1952; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie) and Ice Palace (1958), filmed in 1960.

Also known as Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter, Journalist, Short Story Writer

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

Edna Ferber
- Life
- Death
- Writer
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Edna Ferber
- Read
- Sight
- Seen

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

Edna Ferber
- Mean
- Better
- Big
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

Edna Ferber
- Live
- Die
- Learn
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Edna Ferber
- She
- Woman
- Struggle
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
- People
- Business
- Past
A closed mind is a dying mind.

Edna Ferber
- Mind
- Dying
- Closed
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Edna Ferber
- Bad
- Wisdom
- Too Much

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

Edna Ferber
- Food
- Philosophy
- Roast
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
- You
- More
- Fit
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Edna Ferber
- Women
- American
- Politics
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber
- Death
- Struggle
- Old
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
- Beautiful
- Man
- Tree
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

Edna Ferber
- Feeling
- Christmas
- Season