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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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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.
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Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
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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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... 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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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 are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.
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Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
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Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
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don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
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You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.
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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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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
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A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
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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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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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here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
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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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