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Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

~Anthony Doerr

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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

Topics: Because Between Busy Connection Fish Fishing Keep Lot Mind Mostly Spend Think Thinking Time Up Waist Water Whole Without You Your I Think

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I'm terrified of cliches.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Cliches Terrified

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When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Around Books Boy Fit House Now Owned Several Shelf Single Stacked Thousand

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If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Adulthood Book Books Enough Every Get Going Literate Lucky One Book Only Read Still Week Years You

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Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Been Clean Controlled Diamonds Gold Hallmark Long Nice Rich Water

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Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: After Check Checked Library Lot Lousy Me Mom Out School She Take Wanted Weather Whatever Would

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I read Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat' when I was 11.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Boat Open Read

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We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Air Assess Become Culture Fat How How Much Information Live Much Numbers Our Pain Quickly Reading Scores Skill Suck Too

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Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two-hour comic-reading benders.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Absorb Beds Books Bunk Conjecture Embarked Entirely Every Every Night Find Lately Lives Made Much Night Out Pictures Pointed Pretty Sons Them Themselves

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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