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  • WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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 a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

    "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.
  • Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

    Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster
  • In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

    Anthony Doerr (2010). “About Grace: A Novel”, p.203, Simon and Schuster
  • Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

    Penguin Group Interview, www.encyclopedia.com. 2006.
  • 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.

    Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

    "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.
  • Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

    Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.388, Simon and Schuster
  • To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

    Anthony Doerr (2011). “Memory Wall: Stories”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

    "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.
  • 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, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.

    Mother   Heart   Cells  
    Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.468, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.

    Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
  • Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.

  • I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented that research with imagination; research might give you detail, but imagination supplies the direction in which to apply all that detail.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.

  • Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

    Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.95, Simon and Schuster
  • So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

    Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
  • I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

    "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.
  • 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 live or die.

  • I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

  • 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 me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

    "Off the Page" with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.
  • 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 so much and you didn't want to spend it all in one place...But now I know that life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours, but the world will never run out of life. And we're all very lucky to be part of something like that.

  • 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 little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

  • For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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 rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

    "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.
  • I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

  • Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

    Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

    Penguin Group Interview, www.encyclopedia.com. 2006.
  • You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

  • A real diamond is never perfect.

    Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.234, Simon and Schuster
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