Edna Ferber Quotes

Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1930; adapted into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Giant (1952; made into the 1956 film of the same name) and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960. ...more

Birth: August 15, 1885 - Death: April 16, 1968

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

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

Topic(s): Littles , Literature , Too Much

Funny, isn’t it, how your whole life goes by while you think you’re only planning the way you’re going to live it?

Topic(s): Thinking , Way , Life

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

Topic(s): Faces , Tragedy , Clouds

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.

Topic(s): People , Way , Past

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

Topic(s): Helping , Compulsion

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Topic(s): Mind , Culture , Dying

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

Topic(s): Ifs , Literature , Dirty

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

Topic(s): Men , Results , He Man

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn’t special. We’ve all got it, early in life.

Topic(s): Young , Special , Youth

Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.

Topic(s): Feelings , Seasons

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

Topic(s): Should , Women , Sight

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Edna Ferber Quotes