(18 quotes found)
“Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.”
Edna Ferber
“Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.”
“Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way”
“Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.”
“Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little”
“Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.”
“I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.”
“Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.”
“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.”
“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”
