Quotes by Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr

A real diamond is never perfect.

Diamond

Perfect

Real

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.

Night

Storm

World

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

Alive

Dies

Want

Here’s what I mean by the miracle of language. When you’re falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader’s heart and a writer’s, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death … And here’s the magic. You’re different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

Book

Dream

Fall

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

Dad

Football

Play

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.

Gone

Lucky

Rejection

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

Writing

I used to think…that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn’t want to spend it all in one place…But now I know that life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours, but the world will never run out of life. And we’re all very lucky to be part of something like that.

Lucky

Running

Thinking

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

Book

Boston

Writing

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

Memories

Past

Stories

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Airplane

Alive

Art

Baby

Beautiful

Book

Boston

Cells

Challenges

Childhood

Children

Dad

Diamond

Dies

Different

Done

Dream

Eye

Fall

Firsts

Football

Forever

Gone

Hands

Heart

Here And There

Inadequate

Inspirational

Joy

Language

Life

Light

Long

Lucky

Lying

Math

Mean

Memories

Might

Mother

Night

Past

People

Perfect

Play

Pockets

Reading

Real

Rejection

Running

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Quotes by Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr

A real diamond is never perfect.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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