Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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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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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
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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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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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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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Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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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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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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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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He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.