Anthony Doerr Quotes

We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.

Anthony Doerr

Quotes to Explore

Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist
- Up
- Country
- Art
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Barbra Streisand
- Success
- Me
- Eating
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Queen Elizabeth II
- Men
- Long
- Women
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

Rainbow Rowell
- Time
- Science
- Past
I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

Kate Adie
- World
- Women
- Woman
Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

Bai Ling
- Two
- Directors
- Asian