Edna Ferber Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

  Writing, Climbing, Interesting

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

• 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

  Sweet Love, Writing, Emo Love

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

• The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible.

  Edna Ferber

  Wall, Writing, Views

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Kind of Magic: An Autobiography”, p.78, Vintage

• I think 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

  Writing, Thinking, Order

• I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Thinking, Order

• It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Reflection, Tools

• writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.

  Edna Ferber

  Witty, Writing, Profound

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

• I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Years, Done

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

• Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

  Edna Ferber

  Memorable, Writing, Serenity

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

• Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Climbing, Mountain

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Peculiar Treasure: An Autobiography”, p.13, Vintage

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