Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.
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The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
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Life is too short to be miserable.
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An army of lovers shall not fail.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
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You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
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I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
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I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.
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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.