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You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

Anthony Doerr

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Anthony Doerr
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 27
Author Of Novels
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Cleveland
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I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.
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I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.
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I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented that research with imagination research might give you detail, but imagination supplies the direction in which to apply all that detail.
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I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
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Don’t you want to be alive before you die?
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Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.
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In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
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Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.
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I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
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A real diamond is never perfect.
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For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.
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