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When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Ask Book Books Enough Every Get Going Life Live Lucky Math More One Book Only People Read Recommendations Rest Say Some Week Years You Your

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We Americans are churning through fresh water at an alarming and unsustainable rate.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Alarming American Fresh Rate Through Unsustainable Water

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Lewis Robinson's first novel, 'Water Dogs,' is stuffed with snow. Open practically any page of this book, and crystals will shake out.

~Anthony Doerr

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Fiction writers have long turned to winter to advance bluer palettes, slicker surfaces, and sharper contrasts. The sky darkens, the wind picks up, and flakes start to fall. Horizons shrink. Couples bicker. Cars slide off roads. Obliteration tends to loiter between the sentences.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Advance Between Car Couples Fall Fiction Fiction Writers Horizons Long Off Picks Roads Sentences Sharper Shrink Sky Slide Start Tends Turned Up Wind Winter Writers

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Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair of chainsaw operator's earmuffs.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Coffee Coffee Shops Compose Novels Operator Pair Shops Some Supposedly Wear Whole Work Write Writers I Write

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'Never do the dishes without music,' my brother Mark once advised me - the same brother who once ate a spoonful of refrigerated dog food to escape his turn at the kitchen sink. And really, it may be the most sensible advice I've been given.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Advice Advised Ate Been Brother Dishes Dog Escape Food Given His Kitchen Mark May Me Most Music Never Once Really Same Sensible Sink Turn Who Without

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Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Always Book Bravest Fiction Long Magazines Meaning Pieces Print Publish Publishers Really Short Short Stories Stories Too Without Write I Write

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Sometimes, when the neighborhood is silent and the sky is aswarm with the stars and the mind is swirling like a flushed toilet, a person gets to doubting himself. In the hardest times, the stand-at-the-kitchen-sink-and-stare-into-the blackness times, I put on Bob Dylan's 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time.'

~Anthony Doerr

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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.

~Anthony Doerr

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My mom was a high school science teacher for decades. She just never made it feel like we had to choose between the arts and the sciences. We had bookshelves full of novels, and she also had Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold and Carl Sagan.

~Anthony Doerr

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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