Quotes By Rita Mae Brown

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Normal is the average of deviance.

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

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.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

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 rainbow was enough.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.