Anthony Doerr Writing Quotations

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

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.

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.

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.