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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 always told my dad I'd play professional football.
Anthony Doerr
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.
Anthony Doerr
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.
Anthony Doerr
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
Anthony Doerr
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
Anthony Doerr
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
Anthony Doerr
Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.
Anthony Doerr
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.
Anthony Doerr
To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.
Anthony Doerr
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.
Anthony Doerr
Don’t you want to be alive before you die?
Anthony Doerr
Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.
Anthony Doerr
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
Anthony Doerr
My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
Anthony Doerr
We live through books we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.
Anthony Doerr
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
Anthony Doerr
Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th century. It was how the Third Reich controlled its citizens, spread lies, and disseminated fear.
Anthony Doerr
Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
Anthony Doerr
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
Anthony Doerr
I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
Anthony Doerr