Latest Anthony Doerr Quotes from Interviews

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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

• Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th century. It was how the Third Reich controlled its citizens, spread lies, and disseminated fear.

  Anthony Doerr

  Lying, Airplane, Technology

  Source: therumpus.net

• I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented that research with imagination; research might give you detail, but imagination supplies the direction in which to apply all that detail.

  Anthony Doerr

  Book, Europe, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Anthony Doerr

  Dream, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net