Rita Mae Brown Quotes about Writing

I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

If you don't like my book, write your own.

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.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

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.

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.

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.

If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

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

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.

Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

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.