Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerris an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...
math science thinking
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.
want alive dies
Don’t you want to be alive before you die?
fun school men
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.
sister-in-law skills long
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.
dream reading writing
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.
lying airplane technology
Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th century. It was how the Third Reich controlled its citizens, spread lies, and disseminated fear.
real perfect diamond
A real diamond is never perfect.
book europe giving
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.
night storm care
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.
country home vegetables
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.
art memories book
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.
unhappy-person people different
To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.
mother heart cells
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.
silence pockets language
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.