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

— Edna Ferber

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice--they all make fine fuel.

— Edna Ferber

It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.

— Edna Ferber

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

— Edna Ferber

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.

— Edna Ferber

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

— Edna Ferber

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causes you to bump into people not going your way.

— Edna Ferber

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.

— Edna Ferber

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

— Edna Ferber

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

— Edna Ferber