Quote

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.

Edna Ferber

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Appleton
Wisconsin
Life
Difficult
Reflection
Write
Complete
Stories
Finished
Must
Tools
Writing
Short
Really
Story
Good
Words
Time
Use

More quotes by Edna Ferber

Image
Men often marry their mothers.
Edna Ferber
Image
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.
Edna Ferber
Image
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
Edna Ferber
Image
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
Image
A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
Edna Ferber
Image
There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.
Edna Ferber
Image
A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
Edna Ferber
Image
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Edna Ferber
Image
No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.
Edna Ferber
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
Edna Ferber
Image
You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.
Edna Ferber
Image
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.
Edna Ferber
Image
Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
Edna Ferber
Image
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
Edna Ferber
Image
Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.
Edna Ferber
Image
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.
Edna Ferber
Image
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
Edna Ferber
Image
The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
Edna Ferber