Quote

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

Rita Mae Brown

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Real
Milton
Manuscripts
Avoid
Blind
Sight
Went
Reading
Reason
Unsolicited

More quotes by Rita Mae Brown

Image
Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Life is too short to be miserable.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
When God made man she was practicing.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
People are like tea bags you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
Rita Mae Brown