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

Edna Ferber

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Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Appleton
Wisconsin
Writers
Sight
Seen
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Women
Winsome
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Rarely

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I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.
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In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.
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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
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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.
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A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
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... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.
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writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.
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The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
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Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.
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To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.
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I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.
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Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.
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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
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No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.
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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'.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
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People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
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