You and I can go on YouTube and learn how to fix a tractor engine or learn Farsi. Groups are using those tools to recruit young people into a climate of hatred. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
I’ve been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
Hour by hour, minute by minute, I make decisions that seem like the right things to do at the time but which prevent me from reflecting on the most significant, most critical fact in my life: Every day, I participate in a system that is weaponizing our big, gorgeous planet against our kids. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
Research,’ for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one’s memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I’ve got to figure out how this book’s going to end. Otherwise, you’re going to write yourself into so many dead-ends. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It’s just less of your life invested. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn’t teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading – it wasn’t just a blank page, laying down words. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn’t care all that much if you live or die. Anthony Doerr Read Quote