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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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.
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I hate it when I get grumpy. But I can only be high-energy for so long.
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On the professional side, I derive great happiness and energy by solving tough business and organisational problems - even taking on tough meetings with customers.
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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.
