Anthony Doerr quotes

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. (Anthony Doerr)
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. View quote
Anthony Doerr
To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour. View quote
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So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light? View quote
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It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is. View quote
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A real diamond is never perfect. View quote
Anthony Doerr
Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people. View quote
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Don't you want to be alive before you die? View quote
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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. View quote
Anthony Doerr
I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out. View quote
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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. (Anthony Doerr)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. View quote
Anthony Doerr
Just when we think we have a system,... the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we think we know what's coming next, everything changes. View quote
Anthony Doerr
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. View quote
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My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. View quote
Anthony Doerr
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books. View quote
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I guess you could say I've been writing all my life. View quote
Anthony Doerr
I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff. View quote
Anthony Doerr
You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't. (Anthony Doerr)
Travel definitely affects me as a writer. View quote
Anthony Doerr
That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that. View quote
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... the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it. View quote
Anthony Doerr
She walks like a ballerina in dance slippers, her feet as articulate as hands, a little vessel of grace moving out into the fog. View quote
Anthony Doerr