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...
course figure point reach
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.
dream book fall
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.
hands forever might
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
language inadequate
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
narrative-structure miracle chocolate
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.
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.
dream reading writing
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.
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.
rain kids
I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.
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.
growing-up grows
You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.