Anthony Doerr Quotes

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• I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
• It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
• Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
• You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.
• It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days…
• Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can…
• 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.
• But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise,…
• For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say,…

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