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Great writers probably shouldn't be ranked, at least not by me.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Great Least Me Writers

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My ribs ache from all the texts I'll never make time for.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Aches Make Never Ribs Texts Time

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I'll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I'll drop whatever I'm doing to read a new Mary Ruefle essay.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Anne Anything Doing Drop Essay Mary Mccarthy New Read Whatever Writes

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The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his or her use of language becomes careless.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Attention Becomes Books Careless Concentrated Give Her His Language Narrative Only Questions Texts Up Use Where Writer

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I've always been so interested in both the visual beauty of mollusks and the tactile feel of them. As a kid, I collected them all the time.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Always Beauty Been Both Collected Feel Interested Kid Tactile Them Time Visual

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I have always felt that it's a little artificial to divide the sciences and the arts on college campuses.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Always Artificial Arts College Divide Felt Little Sciences

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My goals aren't really commercial success.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Commercial Commercial Success Goals Really Success

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Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you could never meet. That's what got me interested in writing in the first place.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Artist Audience Books Could Every First First Place Got How Incredible Interested Life Me Meet Never Own People Place Reach Take Wants Whom Writing You

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I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Black Created Dead Earth Gone He His Imagination Lewis Like Lived Marks Mean Miraculous Mom Out Page Pointing Reading She Those Voice Were White World You

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I had the little Radio Shack crystal radio, and then my aunt Judy bought me a shortwave radio. It was amazing to me: like on these really clear nights - I lived in Ohio - I could get Texas or Florida. You felt like the world was a smaller place.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Amazing Aunt Bought Clear Could Crystal Felt Florida Get Had Judy Like Little Lived Me Nights Ohio Place Radio Really Shack Smaller Texas Then World You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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