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.
Travel definitely affects me as a writer. - Anthony Doerr
Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
- 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 ar… - 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 ar…
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. - Anthony Doerr
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new a… - Anthony Doerr
Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new a…
I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn't want to sp… - Anthony Doerr
I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn't want to sp…
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
To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up. - Anthony Doerr
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.
A real diamond is never perfect. - Anthony Doerr
A real diamond is never perfect.
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is. - Anthony Doerr
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
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