A Quote by Edna Ferber

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

Edna Ferber

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Edna Ferber
American - Novelist
August 15, 1885 - April 16, 1968

There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs.

Alain Ducasse

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

Emma Lazarus

All the titles have been memorable. I don't have one that was more memorable or less memorable. They are all important titles with various teams.

Cafu

The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.

Atul Gawande

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.

Janet Malcolm

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.

Benjamin Haydon

When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent - total, absolute - the screen is empty, the film has disappeared. This is the state of meditation: when there are no thoughts, no feelings - nothing moves, everything stops. There is tremendous serenity. Out of this serenity, silence, peace, a new kind of experience arises, new flowers blossom.

Rajneesh

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

Irving Penn

There's something to writing a hook and something to writing a memorable melody. That's what I liked about musicals. Then I realized I could write my own songs, and I didn't have to sing other people's.

Sharon Van Etten

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

Alexandra Stoddard

Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively.

Ken Keyes Jr.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

Julia Ward Howe

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

Charles McCarry

When I walk into a room in its grey state, I kind of understand what vibe the room should give out when it's done. Sometimes, it's about serenity, sometimes it's about love, it could be about a married couple or, could be about warmth and companionship with your family home, so it depends on the space.

Sussanne Khan

For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.