Anthony Doerr is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. (wikipedia)
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.
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.
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.
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.
You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.
Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.