My sister-in-law is a painter, and I’ll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She’ll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn’t instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don’t feel like I’m a prodigy or something. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
It wasn’t until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I’ve been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me – you’re doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house. Anthony Doerr Read Quote