Rita Dove Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.”

“I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.”

“I write short stories, and I wrote a play.”

“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.”

“It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.”

“It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.”

“It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.”

“Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.”

“The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.”

“For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.”