Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
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Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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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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I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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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.
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
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It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.
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There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.