Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.
Rita DoveThe library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
Rita DoveIf 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
Rita Dove