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...
stuff singers gorgeous
I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
rain kids
I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.
rejection lucky gone
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.
football dad play
I always told my dad I'd play professional football.
thinking fishing water
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.
work-out magazines
It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
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.
want alive dies
Don’t you want to be alive before you die?
math science thinking
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.
trying firsts
Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.
growing-up grows
You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.
memories past stories
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
teaching reading writing
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.
childhood waiting here-and-there
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.