Anthony Doerr Quotes
What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it.
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I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I asked him when I first got there if I should start reading up on things. But he said, 'No, I think you can just start these experiments,' so I plunged right in.
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I feel powerless all the time, but I regain my energy by making a very small difference that won’t cost me much.
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What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.
