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

  Anthony Doerr

  Memories, Past, Stories

  Anthony Doerr (2010). “About Grace: A Novel”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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

  Anthony Doerr

  Book, Writing, Boston

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• 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

  Teaching, Reading, Writing

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

  Anthony Doerr

  Fun, School, Maturity

  "Off the Page" with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• 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.

  Anthony Doerr

  Rejection, Lucky, Gone

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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

  Anthony Doerr

  Writing

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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

  Anthony Doerr

  Growing Up, Grows

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• Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

  Anthony Doerr

  Penguin Group Interview, www.encyclopedia.com. 2006.

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

  Anthony Doerr

  Work Out, Magazines

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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

  Anthony Doerr

  Singers, Stuff, Gorgeous

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

  Anthony Doerr

  Rain, Kids

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

  Anthony Doerr

  Football, Dad, Play

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.

  Anthony Doerr

  Beautiful, Mean, Hands

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• WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.

  Anthony Doerr

  Jobs, School, Holocaust

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  Penguin Group Interview, www.encyclopedia.com. 2006.

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