...didn’t you enjoy meeting the young men?” “What men? There wasn’t a man there I couldn’t squash ten of.

Today it strikes me that the most important aspect of these conversations was not so much what we said as what we took for granted, and what in fact was not so at all. We were wrong about almost everything. An accurate character sketch must take these errors into account, since they expressed one kind of reality - our actual situation.

If they don&#39;t read, if they don&#39;t love reading; if they don&#39;t find themselves compulsively reading, I don&#39;t think they&#39;re really a writer.

Written By Rita Dove

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