Edna

Edna Ferber:
"Being an old maid was a great deal like death by drowning — a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling."

"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!"