American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
Rita Mae BrownPeople aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.
Rita Mae BrownThe writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, โHere I am,โ but to write a novel, hold it up and say, โHere YOU are.
Rita Mae BrownSport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
Rita Mae BrownWhat happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.
Rita Mae Brown