Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Firelit rooms lined with books - these are the places in which important things happen.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
All around us right now, tucked into the valleys and along the coasts, bookshops glow in the winter light. Think of them… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I subscribe to the theory that reading a book is similar to walking a trail, and I'm most comfortable walking when I… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“he moved neither forward nor backward in time, but merely endured variations of the same day over and over. Maybe he was the one… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Open your eyes, the Frenchman on the radio used to say, and see what you can with them before they close forever.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Just when we think we have a system, ...the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“An hour passed and another and then, like a glass of water overfilled - the meniscus inverting, going convex, gravity pulling at the edges,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“For dinner, he orders wild boar cooked with fresh mushrooms. And a full bottle of Bordeaux. Especially during wartime, such things remain important. They… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Do you know what happens, Etienne,” says Madame Manec from the other side of the kitchen, “when you drop a frog in a pot… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“You ever hope for something so much? So much you can't sleep, so much your skull hurts? But the thing is, you don't even… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Hope was a sunrise, a friend in the alley, a whisper in an empty corridor.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
