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Anthony Doerr
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 27
Author Of Novels
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Perfect
Real
Never
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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.
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Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
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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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Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.
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It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
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Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
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To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.
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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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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.
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My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
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WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.
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I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.
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It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
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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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I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
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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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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.
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So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?
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I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
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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.
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