Rita Mae Brown Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Literature, Quiet, Tranquility

  Rita Mae Brown (1989). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, Bantam

• I believe all literature started as gossip.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Believe, Gossip, Literature

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.8, Bantam

• I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Horse, Literature, Language

  Interview with Janet Justs, ejournals.lib.vt.edu. November 6, 2003.

• Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Literature, Statistics, Quarters

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.121, Bantam

• Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Reality, Creating, Views

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.82, Bantam

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