Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. - 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
But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that. - Edna Ferber
That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit. - Edna Ferber
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. - Edna Ferber
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. - Edna Ferber
A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. - Edna Ferber