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A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
Edna Ferber
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Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
Journalist
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Playwright
Screenwriter
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Appleton
Wisconsin
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More quotes by Edna Ferber
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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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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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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Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.
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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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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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Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.
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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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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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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
Men often marry their mothers.
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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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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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The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible.
Edna Ferber
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
Edna Ferber
don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
Edna Ferber
The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
Edna Ferber
The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
Edna Ferber
I like any place that isn't here.
Edna Ferber
