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Anthony Doerr Quotes: "Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever."

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour."

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.




Anthony Doerr Quotes: "So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?"

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness."

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.




Anthony Doerr Quotes: "Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people."

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is."

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again."

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "A real diamond is never perfect."

A real diamond is never perfect.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming."

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one."

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.




Anthony Doerr Quotes: "It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines."

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books."

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "I guess you could say I've been writing all my life."

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "Don’t you want to be alive before you die?"

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way."

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out."

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "Travel definitely affects me as a writer."

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "I always told my dad I'd play professional football."

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't."

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff."

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history."

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up."

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk."

War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot."

Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "What the war did to the dreamers."

What the war did to the dreamers.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet."

They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.




Anthony Doerr Quotes: "This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark."

This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "I am only alive because I have not yet died."

I am only alive because I have not yet died.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "---on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions."

---on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again."

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "Rome is a broken mirror, the falling straps of a dress, a puzzle of astonishing complexity. It is an iceberg floating below our terrace, all its ballasts hidden beneath the surface."

Rome is a broken mirror, the falling straps of a dress, a puzzle of astonishing complexity. It is an iceberg floating below our terrace, all its ballasts hidden beneath the surface.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that."

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness."

The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?"

Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?




Anthony Doerr Quotes: "The stars were so many and so white they looked like chips of ice, hammered through the fabric of the sky."

The stars were so many and so white they looked like chips of ice, hammered through the fabric of the sky.




Anthony Doerr Quotes: "On the rue de la Crosse, the Hotel of Bees becomes almost weightless for a moment, lifted in a spiral of flame, before it begins to rain the pieces back to the earth"

On the rue de la Crosse, the Hotel of Bees becomes almost weightless for a moment, lifted in a spiral of flame, before it begins to rain the pieces back to the earth



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "Don't you ever get tired of believing, Madame? Don't you ever want proof?"

Don't you ever get tired of believing, Madame? Don't you ever want proof?



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "How about peaches, dear?” murmurs Madame Manec, and Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later, she’s eating wedges of wet sunlight."

How about peaches, dear?” murmurs Madame Manec, and Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later, she’s eating wedges of wet sunlight.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "Silence is the fruit of occupation."

Silence is the fruit of occupation.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses."

There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight indication of each day toward success or failure. But no curses."

There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight indication of each day toward success or failure. But no curses.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel."

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "You must never stop believing. That’s the most important thing."

You must never stop believing. That’s the most important thing.



Anthony Doerr Quotes: "You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who decides the history."

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.