"If they don't read, if they don't love……" — Rita Dove
"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer"
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74 Quotes by Rita Dove
Rita Dove has 74 quotes on this site.
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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before…
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The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable,…
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When I was young, I was older than I am today.
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about…
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back…
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us…
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of…
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen…
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process…
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his…
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise…
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I…
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More Compulsively Quotes
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
— William S. Burroughs
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Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller.…
— Unknown Author
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Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound…
— Unknown Author
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My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut…
— Stan Getz
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Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story.…
— Karin Slaughter
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The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the…
— Unknown Author
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Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950…
— Ian Bogost
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You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of…
— Molly Harper
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I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively…
— Travis Walton
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Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research…
— Debby Applegate
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If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.
— Tim Vine
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I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm…
— Jules Feiffer
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