Anthony Doerr

“A demonic horde. Upended sacks of beans. A hundred broken rosaries. There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate:…

— Anthony Doerr

“that a thousand choices were implicit in a single moment.”

— Anthony Doerr

We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our…

— Anthony Doerr

“Nothing that could fit on this page, or a hundred of these pages, would possibly accommodate all the things I should say…

— Anthony Doerr

“He is about to hand the earphone to Jutta when—clear and unblemished, about halfway down the coil—he hears the quick, drastic strikes…

— Anthony Doerr

“A travel website says that there are 280 fountains in Rome, but it seems as if there are more:...Remove them and there…

— Anthony Doerr

“In the infinite permutation of an ice crystal, everything repeats itself, but, really, from another point of view, nothing repeats itself.”

— 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

“But we are the good guys. Aren't we, Uncle?" "I hope so. I hope we are.”

— Anthony Doerr

Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching…

— Anthony Doerr

'Never do the dishes without music,' my brother Mark once advised me - the same brother who once ate a spoonful of…

— Anthony Doerr

Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever…

— Anthony Doerr

“and how could Neumann Two not have known, but of course he didn’t, because that is how things are with Neumann Two,…

— Anthony Doerr

“Water was a wild, capricious substance: nothing solid, nothing permanent, nothing as it appeared.”

— Anthony Doerr

We only get 60 years, if we're really lucky, as adults on earth, and why not try to wake up every day…

— Anthony Doerr

“To shut you eyes is to guess nothing of blindness.”

— 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

“A scientist’s work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Everything has led to this.”

— Anthony Doerr

“But what Marie-Laure remembered, standing at the rail as it whistled past, was her father saying that Foucault's pendulum would never stop.…

— Anthony Doerr

“he could feel his hope wilting.”

— Anthony Doerr

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

“I am hearing you. On radio. Is why I come.”

— Anthony Doerr

“Every part of him wants to scream: is this not wrong? But here it is right.”

— Anthony Doerr

“The moon sets and the eastern sky lightens, the hem of night pulling away, taking stars with it one by one until…

— 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