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Rita Mae Brown (b. November 28, 1944) is a prolific American writer, most known for her mysteries and other novels ( Rubyfruit Jungle ). She is also an Emmy-nominated screenwriter.
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
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 novels, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Writers will happen in the best of families.
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
It's an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Morals are private. Decency is public.
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize Im the only one in the room with balls.
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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.
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden, And we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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