Discover Quote by Anthony Doerr Download Open image “Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.” — Anthony Doerr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discover Fiction Go Things Writing
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough. — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. — Theodore Sturgeon 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
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing,… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people through interactivity.… — Golan Levin Copy Share Image
“The vision of life is not a "discovery"; it's a "work" and whatever position you occupy demands work. Your life may not be built… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have the right to name it, but there's a catch. — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
“The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor. — Elizabeth Holmes Copy Share Image
There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
I've been astounded to discover how good to their teams and crew that Marvel are. They're so collaborative, so smart with their stories. They… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
