Edna Ferber - Writer Quotes

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There is no denying the fact that writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Edna Ferber

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

Edna Ferber

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

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

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

Edna Ferber

Life really can't ever utterly 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