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I like any place that isn't here.
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 writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
Edna Ferber
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'.
Edna Ferber
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
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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.
Edna Ferber
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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A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
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Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.
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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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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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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.
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Men often marry their mothers.
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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.
Edna Ferber
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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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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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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Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
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Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
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Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
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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