Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American writer, activist, and feminist. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter.
Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. . . . Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. . . . In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.
He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Normal is the average of deviance.
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
Life is too short to be miserable.
The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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.
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
Writers will happen in the best of families.
I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.
There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.
I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.