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

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

- 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…

- 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…

- Anthony Doerr

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

- 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

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

- Anthony Doerr

A real diamond is never perfect.

- Anthony Doerr