“I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it ...” — Rita Dove Quote

“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.”

“What writing does is to reveal.”

“All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.”

“Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.”

“To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.”

“I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.”