Life Quotes by Anthony Doerr

“All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”

— Anthony Doerr

“How few days are left in the lives of anyone. How few hours.”

— Anthony Doerr

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

— 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

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

— Anthony Doerr

“All the events of his life were compressing to singularity: one night, one hour.”

— Anthony Doerr

“Your problem, Werner,” says Frederick, “is that you still believe you own your life.”

— Anthony Doerr

“These were the beginnings of a new existence; Winkler could feel it gestating.”

— Anthony Doerr

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

— Anthony Doerr

We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing…

— Anthony Doerr

“This, perhaps, is how lives are measured, a series of abandonments that we hope beyond reason will eventually be reconciled.”

— Anthony Doerr

“It was hard to live through the early 1940s in France and not have the war be the center from which the…

— Anthony Doerr

“If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and…

— 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…

— Anthony Doerr

“None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram…

— Anthony Doerr

“Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn’t life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in…

— Anthony Doerr

When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest…

— 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.…

— Anthony Doerr

“I always thought, or imagined, that there were these invisible lines trembling in our wake, outlining our trajectories through life, throbbing with…

— Anthony Doerr

“Does it matter? In memory, in story, in the end, we can remake our lives any way we need. To be surprised,…

— Anthony Doerr

We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And…

— Anthony Doerr

Hour by hour, minute by minute, I make decisions that seem like the right things to do at the time but which…

— Anthony Doerr

“What mazes there are in this world. The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her…

— Anthony Doerr

“The dead are gone and so their power over the living is only temporary. You lose sleep, you lose appetite, but eventually…

— Anthony Doerr

“Answers seemed to float through the space around him. It was about love. It was about getting handed at conception a gift…

— Anthony Doerr

“Werner likes to crouch in his dormer and imagine radio waves like mile-long harp strings,bending and vibrating over Zollverein,flying through forests,through cities,through…

— Anthony Doerr

We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract.…

— Anthony Doerr

“It was hard to live through the early 1940s in France and not have the war be the center from which the…

— Anthony Doerr

“Life is wonderful and strange...and it’s also absolutely mundane and tiresome. It’s hilarious and it’s deadening. It’s a big, screwed-up morass of…

— Anthony Doerr

“She said being able to give life was not something anyone should take for granted.”

— Anthony Doerr

“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”

— Anthony Doerr

“A torrent of language, a spring off the near-infinite stream of confessions he had harbored half his life, all of hers.”

— Anthony Doerr

The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of…

— Anthony Doerr

Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people…

— Anthony Doerr

“But have heart. Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even. Take…

— Anthony Doerr

“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.”

— Anthony Doerr

“For a moment Zeno feels that he might be able to speak it into existence: if he says exactly the right words,…

— Anthony Doerr

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to…

— Anthony Doerr

“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it…

— Anthony Doerr