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

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Anthony Doerr
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 27
Author Of Novels
Journalist
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Cleveland
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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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You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.
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