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 Read Quote
I have always felt that it’s a little artificial to divide the sciences and the arts on college campuses. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
I don’t believe in reincarnation. I feel like we’re here for such an appallingly brief period of time. I believe we each get this one trip, and if we’re really, really fortunate, maybe we get 70 or 80 years on Earth. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In my students, I’m always dispelling the notion that characters come like a light bulb over the head in cartoons. For me, it’s like a shapeless big lump of clay. You just build it into something, and then you step back and go, ‘That’s not right,’ hack it apart, put out a new arm, and say, ‘Maybe this will walk around and work.’ Anthony Doerr Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote