All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion. Rita Mae Brown More Quotes by Rita Mae Brown More Quotes From Rita Mae Brown Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000. Rita Mae Brown quarters statistics literature Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption. Rita Mae Brown underestimate parent self Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash. Rita Mae Brown education inspirational reality 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 creating views reality You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. Rita Mae Brown rude witty funny If you don't like my book, write your own. Rita Mae Brown write-your-own writing book Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know. Rita Mae Brown upset different men Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about. Rita Mae Brown gossip communication helping I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. Rita Mae Brown memorable memories believe 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 nominations writing two No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future. Rita Mae Brown aunt mother past Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer! Rita Mae Brown terrific dating computer No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love Rita Mae Brown lgbt-pride gay government Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck. Rita Mae Brown gambling greed luck Normal is the average of deviance. Rita Mae Brown deviance normal average If you like my novels, I commend your good taste. Rita Mae Brown good-taste novel taste 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 sorry country art If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing. Rita Mae Brown next want writing A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos. Rita Mae Brown chaos pain art 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 ice writing past
