Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“The most revolutionary thing you can do is to be yourself, to speak your truth, to open your arms to life including the pain.… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages -… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“what would happen if she'd open her eyes and see only dark and feel satin from the coffin? That'd scare her enough to kill… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“You know, it’s hell to work with a cat. They really are smarter than we are. Have you ever gotten anyone to feed you,… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
