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.
Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, 1992.
-- Edna Ferber, (Aug 15 1885-1968), US novelist; Her best-selling novels included So Big: Show Boat, 1926, Giant, 1952.