Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brownis an American writer, activist, and feminist. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 November 1944
CountryUnited States of America
writing views pay
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.
life book writing
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.
writing doors splinters
I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
writing two nominations
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
writing color show-me
Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.
writing exclusive
Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
fall writing character
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.
writing want next
If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
writing past ice
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
book writing write-your-own
If you don't like my book, write your own.
writing hollywood thirty
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
jobs writing here-i-am
The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
family writing happens
Writers will happen in the best of families.
creativity writing process
The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.