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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is. - Anthony Doerr
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
A real diamond is never perfect. - Anthony Doerr
A real diamond is never perfect.
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