Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
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Pain isn't always the enemy.
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I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
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Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
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A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
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Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
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He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.
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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.