Edna Ferber

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

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.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

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.

Christmas isnt a season. Its a feeling.

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.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Houseworks the hardest work in the world. Thats why men wont do it.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

Roast beef medium is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

The goats business is none of the sheeps concern.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.