13 Quotes by Anthony Doerr
- I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.
- Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
- It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
- 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.
- I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
- I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
- You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.
- 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.
- 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.
- I always told my dad I'd play professional football.
- 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, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.
- 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.
- 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, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
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