Rita Mae Brown Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Writers will happen in the best of families.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Family, Writing, Happens

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.11, Bantam

• 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.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Jobs, Writing, Here I Am

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Creativity, Form

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.20, Bantam

• 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.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life, Book, Writing

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Doors, Splinters

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Book, Writing, Write Your Own

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

• 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.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Fall, Character, Writing

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Hollywood, Thirty

  "Write On" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

• 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.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Color, Show Me

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.31, Bantam

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Two, Nominations

  "Write On" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

• Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Exclusive

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

• 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.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Views, Pay

• I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Country, Art, Sorry

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Next, Want

• 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.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Past, Ice

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.56, Bantam

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