Anthony Doerr Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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.

  Anthony Doerr

  Dream, Book, Fall

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

  Anthony Doerr

  Silence, Pockets, Language

• It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

  Anthony Doerr

  Language, Inadequate

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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