Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull. — 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
I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category. — 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
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is… — 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
