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Edna Ferber [1885-1968] American

Rank: 101
Novelist

Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant.

Business, Christmas, Food, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.	Christmas	101
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.	Food	102
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.	Business	103
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.		104
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.	Wisdom	105
A closed mind is a dying mind.		106
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.		107
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.		108
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.		109
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.		110
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.		111
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.		112
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.		113
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.		114

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