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...
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.
beautiful mean hands
Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.
memories past stories
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
trying firsts
Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.
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.
running thinking lucky
I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn't want to spend it all in one place...But now I know that life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours, but the world will never run out of life. And we're all very lucky to be part of something like that.
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.