Anthony Doerr Quotes

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

I've been writing since I was 19.

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

I was always writing, since I was, like, 12.

I've been writing since I was 12 years old.

I've always been writing.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

All experience helps when you write.

I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.

I still write the same way and have the same perspective.

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.