If you’re lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you’re still only going to get to 3,640 books. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
Maybe scarcity isn’t always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She’d let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we’re in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
I found my first novel difficult. I don’t want to make it sound like it’s any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull. Anthony Doerr Read Quote