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Sometimes I wake at 2 A.M. worrying that my great-granddaughter will have to march through her distant, broiling future gathering all the plastic I ever disposed of.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Distant Ever Future Gathering Her March Plastic Sometimes Through Wake Will Worrying

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Hour by hour, minute by minute, I make decisions that seem like the right things to do at the time but which prevent me from reflecting on the most significant, most critical fact in my life: Every day, I participate in a system that is weaponizing our big, gorgeous planet against our kids.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Against Big Critical Day Decisions Every Every Day Fact Gorgeous Hour Kids Life Like Make Me Minute Most My Life Our Participate Planet Prevent Reflecting Right Right Things Seem Significant System Things Time Which

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If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Become Before Biological Corpses Generation Genes Imperative Leave Moral Next Next Generation Our Pass Planet Survive Them Try

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I did go to an MFA program, at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. For me, it worked perfectly. It was a small program. They only take five fiction writers a year, and they fund all of us - you don't go into debt to get an MFA. It's not like getting an MBA - you're not going to buy yourself out.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Bowling Buy Debt Did Fiction Fiction Writers Five Fund Get Getting Go Going Green Like Me Ohio Only Out Perfectly Program Small State State University Take University Us Worked Writers Year You Yourself

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I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Always College English Got History Master Science Sort Studied Writing

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My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Always Bell Brothers High High School Labs Mom Optics School Science Surrounded Teacher Works

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My parents would drive us to Florida every spring in this big old, rusy Suburban, and we'd collect stuff on the beach for our aquarium back in Ohio; we had this big saltwater aquarium back in Ohio. Every time we found anything, any mollusk, my mom would bring out the guidebook and quiz us on what it was, so that stuff was built in early.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Any Anything Back Beach Big Bring Built Collect Drive Early Every Every Time Florida Found Had Mom Ohio Old Our Out Parents Quiz Spring Stuff Suburban Time Us Would

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I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it works. Often, you write yourself into a dark place where you don't know what you need to know, so you go get the information.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Dark Dark Place Get Go How Information Know Need Often People Place Read Some Some People Then Think Where Works Write Writers You Yourself I Think

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Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Being Books Could Human Human Being Just Kid Learned Leaves Making Maybe Read Suddenly Then Think Trees While You

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Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out in the middle of nowhere, I entertained myself by writing.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Entertained Growing Growing Up Having Kids Living Loved Maybe Middle Myself Natural Now Nowhere Out Play Realize Unusual Up Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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