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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,

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”

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

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”

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

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 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”

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

Edna Ferber
Writing, Thinking, Order

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

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”

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