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Rita Dove Quotes

Rita Dove quotes about writing

American Poet August 28, 1952

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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things. Rita Dove
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. Rita Dove
Rita Dove quote: "I write short stories, and I wrote a play."
I write short stories, and I wrote a play. Rita Dove
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. Rita Dove
To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you. Rita Dove
Rita Dove quote: "What writing does is to reveal."
What writing does is to reveal. Rita Dove

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