“Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.” — Edna Ferber Quote

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world.

For me, hearing my voice is sometimes a little nauseating, especially at Christmas.

We play everybody's Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, 'I'm not gonna play my own record; I'd be embarrassed.' But I'm gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs!

Every Christmas Eve, we used to listen to evensong live from King's College chapel in Cambridge, and I'm almost ashamed to admit that it was my geeky fantasy to be chosen to perform the opening solo verse of 'Once In Royal David's City.'