1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber Quotes

Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big , Show Boat , Cimarron , Giant and Ice Palace , filmed in 1960. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. August 1885 – 16. April 1968  •  Other names Edna Ferberová
Edna Ferber photo
Edna Ferber: 6 quotes3 likes

Famous Edna Ferber Quotes

“I'm not much to look at", replied Elizabeth, "but I'm beautiful inside.”

Edna Ferber

Source: Half Portions

“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.”

Edna Ferber

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

“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

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

Edna Ferber

Source: Gigolo

“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

Similar authors

John Galsworthy photo
John Galsworthy48
English novelist and playwright None
Marcel Pagnol photo
Marcel Pagnol9
novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France None
Samuel Beckett photo
Samuel Beckett122
Irish novelist, playwright, and poet None
Sinclair Lewis photo
Sinclair Lewis136
American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright None
William Golding photo
William Golding79
British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Lite… None
Elias Canetti photo
Elias Canetti43
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist,… None
W. Somerset Maugham photo
W. Somerset Maugham158
British playwright, novelist, short story writer None
Doris Lessing photo
Doris Lessing94
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer … None
Peter Handke photo
Peter Handke9
Austrian writer, playwright and film director None
Tennessee Williams photo
Tennessee Williams139
American playwright None