Rita Mae Brown Quotes About Literature
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I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
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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.
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I believe all literature started as gossip.
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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