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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
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Appleton
Wisconsin
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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 placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
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But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.
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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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There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Edna Ferber
Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.
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We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmthwe build them for the warmth of the soul we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.
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I like any place that isn't here.
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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.
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here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
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Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.
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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
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People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.
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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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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
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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Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.
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It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.
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