Rita Mae Brown Quotes

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.

Rita Mae Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 28, 1944

Topics

BookThinkExcusesYouFindWrite

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.

Jim Henson

WorkFunWorldThoughtDesignRock

Other people might want a Ferrari, but I wanted a butterfly house. I built it together with a blacksmith. We designed it together.

Andre Rieu

ButterflyTogetherPeopleHouseWant

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

Megan Fox

WomenBusinessPurposeThinkYou

My words are my bullets.

John Lydon

WordsBullets

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

John Irving

WritingFirstAlwaysDraftsWritten

For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.

Ann McLane Kuster

WomenAgeCourageDecisionPast

When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I've been particularly interested in American Indian texts.

John Tavener

MusicBeautifulArtSimpleAmerican

It's always boiled down to the quality of your music and the quality of your deal with whoever's distributing your music: There are artists who sold a lot of records and didn't make money because of their deal, and artists who didn't sell nearly as much who made a great living because they own their masters.

Troy Carter

MusicGreatMoneyQualityDownOwn

I think when you're dealing with faith, you want to be as responsible and sensitive to the material as you can.

Tom McCarthy

FaithThinkYouWantResponsible

My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.

Tom Seaver

JobSometimesStrikeOutGetGuys

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

Mary Doria Russell

ThinkWorldview

I'm not fond of kicking a man when he's down.

Mike Gallagher

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