The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons – all those things have always sort of dazzled me. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
That’s the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
