Anthony Doerr Quotes

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• 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 me maybe three…
• 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…
• Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you…
• Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a…
• Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
• Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
• Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.
• We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands,…
• 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…
• The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and…
• I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist…
• So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?
• My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
• Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.
• I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of…
• I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to…
• I always told my dad I'd play professional football.
• I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
• I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.
• I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

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