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...
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.
math science thinking
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.
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.
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.
basically bring help improve rewarded send studio
For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.
writing joy challenges
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
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.
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.
growing-up grows
You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.
Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
work-out magazines
It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
stuff singers gorgeous
I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
book writing boston
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
rain kids
I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.