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I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Being Get Greatest Job Journalist Kind Learn Learning Similar Sure Thinking Way Writing You

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We only get 60 years, if we're really lucky, as adults on earth, and why not try to wake up every day and learn something and talk to people?

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Adult Day Earth Every Every Day Get Learn Lucky Only People Really Something Talk Try Up Wake Wake Up Why Why Not Years

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I was a nerdy kid.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Kid Nerdy

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Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: About Ask Both Both Ways Here Literature Questions Science Ways Why

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Short stories are not maybe the biggest deal in our culture anymore.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Anymore Biggest Culture Deal Maybe Our Short Short Stories Stories

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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

Topics: Because Beloved Buy Carry Copy Experience Fails Fall Gravity Here Home Novel Open Our Rainbow Read Same Say Word You

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All around us right now, tucked into the valleys and along the coasts, bookshops glow in the winter light. Think of them like singular, magical, and multi-dimensional recipe boxes. They wait for us to pluck out a card, to stand over the stove, to start cooking.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Along Around Boxes Card Cooking Glow Light Like Magical Now Out Over Pluck Recipe Right Singular Stand Start Stove Them Think Tucked Us Valleys Wait Winter

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I originally got very interested in memory in high school when my grandmother came to live with us. She had been diagnosed with dementia. It was the first time I had heard the word 'Alzheimer's disease.'

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Alzheimer Been Came Dementia Diagnosed Disease First First Time Got Grandmother Had Heard High High School Interested Live Memory Originally School She Time Us Very Word

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I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you should push yourself to try to persuade your reader that you have the authority to engage with people who, you know, lived in the past, who live in the future, other genders, other places, other cultures.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Allowed Authority Cultures Embrace Engage Enter Feel Fiction Future Imagination In The Past Know Like Live Lived Other Past People Persuade Places Push Reader Should Try Who Worlds You Your Yourself I Feel I Feel Like

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Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching my grandmother lose her memories is, you know, we are all facing erasure eventually.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Attempt Back Erased Eventually Facing Grandmother Her Know Learned Lose Memories Memory Think Ties Time Watching You I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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