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Anthony Doerr Quotes

American - Writer | -

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

Trees Think You Human Kid Just

Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out in the middle of nowhere, I entertained myself by writing.

Myself Growing Up Writing Loved Play

I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is Cleveland sports.

Age Heart Sports Sadness Train Up

I subscribe to the theory that reading a book is similar to walking a trail, and I'm most comfortable walking when I can see where I'm going and where I've been. When I'm reading a printed book, the weight of the pages I've turned gives me a sense of how far I've come.

Me Book Reading Walking Trail I Can

The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.

Day Amazing Curiosity Gift You Get

The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.

Love Day Me World Interesting Fall

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

Power Personal Fiction Collective

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

Life Power Think Important Fiction

Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald.

Me Sometimes Ask Recommend Readers

Great writers probably shouldn't be ranked, at least not by me.

Great Me Least Writers Ranked

My ribs ache from all the texts I'll never make time for.

Time Never Make Ribs Texts

I'll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I'll drop whatever I'm doing to read a new Mary Ruefle essay.

Doing New Whatever Anything Essay

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