Anthony Doerr Quotes

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.
Anthony Doerr

Work, Help, Perfect

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
Anthony Doerr

Job, Soldier, Difficult

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.
Anthony Doerr

Live, Care, Die

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

Dad, Football, Play

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

Life, Writing, Guess

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

Rain, Kid, Played

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
Anthony Doerr

Science, Give, Write

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
Anthony Doerr

Sad, Getting, Stuff

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
Anthony Doerr

Work, Until, Started

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
Anthony Doerr

Travel, Writer, Definitely

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

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.
Anthony Doerr

Yourself, End, Book

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

Time, Mind, Busy

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.
Anthony Doerr

Getting, Lucky, Gone

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.
Anthony Doerr

Experience, School, Fun

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.
Anthony Doerr

Words, Down, Two

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.
Anthony Doerr

Life, Long, She

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.
Anthony Doerr

Life, Joy, Short

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

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