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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

Topics: Anyone Care Die Few Live Much Nights Spent Storm Tell Tent Who World You

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You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Imagining Need Outside Own Skull Time Walls You Your Yourself

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In my students, I'm always dispelling the notion that characters come like a light bulb over the head in cartoons. For me, it's like a shapeless big lump of clay. You just build it into something, and then you step back and go, 'That's not right,' hack it apart, put out a new arm, and say, 'Maybe this will walk around and work.'

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Always Apart Arm Around Back Big Build Bulb Cartoons Characters Clay Come Go Hack Head Just Light Light Bulb Like Lump Maybe Me New Notion Out Over Put Right Say Something Step Students Then Walk Will Work You

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

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Even Go Inside Kid Never Out Played Rain

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We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Art Copy Everything Individual Life Live Next Nothing One Thing Thing Through Too

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The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of dazzled me.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Always Beauty Changes Life Me Seasons Sort Things Those Weather

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Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Book Every Indeed Key Little Memories Shelves Vault

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Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Discover Excuse Fiction Go Interesting Interesting Things Just Things Writing

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Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Always Bad Bad Thing Fabricate Maybe Oneself Out Scarcity Seek Something Thing

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If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Anything Different Heartbeat Like Mind Mine Stumble Thoughts Through Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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