Edna Ferber Life Quotations

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

To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?