Quotes Anthony Doerr

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm c...

But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, ...

For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive ...

I always told my dad I'd play professional football....

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking an...

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it...

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it so...

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've...

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life....

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out...

I studied history and English in college, got a master's in ...

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I ...

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. S...

In many ways travel is the easiest way to get myself out of ...

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't ...

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work o...

My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my br...

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it...

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and t...

Travel definitely affects me as a writer....

Whatever limited observational skills I have, I use them bes...

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at ...