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Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you could never meet. That's what got me interested in writing in the first place. - Anthony Doerr

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

'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

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

In my students, I'm always dispelling the notion that characters come like a light bulb over the head in cartoons. For me, it's like a shapeless big lump of clay. You just build it into something, and then you step back and go, 'That's not right,' hack it apart, put out a new arm, and say, 'Maybe this will walk around and work.' - Anthony Doerr

We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual. - Anthony Doerr

I have always felt that it's a little artificial to divide the sciences and the arts on college campuses. - Anthony Doerr

I had the little Radio Shack crystal radio, and then my aunt Judy bought me a shortwave radio. It was amazing to me: like on these really clear nights - I lived in Ohio - I could get Texas or Florida. You felt like the world was a smaller place. - Anthony Doerr

If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat. - Anthony Doerr

When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books. - Anthony Doerr

In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool - how it keeps you cool when you're hot, warm when you're cold, dry when you're wet. - Anthony Doerr

I did go to an MFA program, at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. For me, it worked perfectly. It was a small program. They only take five fiction writers a year, and they fund all of us - you don't go into debt to get an MFA. It's not like getting an MBA - you're not going to buy yourself out. - Anthony Doerr

Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake. - Anthony Doerr

You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull. - Anthony Doerr

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

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

I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you should push yourself to try to persuade your reader that you have the authority to engage with people who, you know, lived in the past, who live in the future, other genders, other places, other cultures. - Anthony Doerr

Travel definitely affects me as a writer. - Anthony Doerr

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