{"author":"Anthony Doerr","author_id":"Anthony+Doerr","total_quotes":63,"quotes":[{"text":"There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["luck"],"id":915,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"},{"text":"What the war did to dreamers.","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["dream","dreamer","war"],"id":1486,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"},{"text":"All morning I lay down sentences, erase them, and try new ones. Soon enough, when things go well, the world around me dwindles: the sky out the window, the furious calm of the big umbrella pine ten feet away, the smell of dust falling onto the hot bulb in the lamp. That's the miracle of writing, the place you try to find--when the room, your body, and even time itself cooperate in a vanishing act.","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["writing-craft","writing-process"],"id":7257,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"},{"text":"They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["soldiers","war"],"id":12996,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"},{"text":"There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight indication of each day toward success or failure. But no curses.","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["curses","luck"],"id":15365,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"},{"text":"That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["diamond","greed","valuable","wealth"],"id":34666,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"},{"text":"You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["history","lesson"],"id":39825,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"},{"text":"Then help us.”“I don’t want to make trouble, Madame.”“Isn’t doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?”“Doing nothing is doing nothing.”“Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.” …“It’s not a person you wish to fight, Madame, it’s a system. How do you fight a system?”“You try.","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["bravery","resistance","world-war-two","ww2"],"id":42738,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"},{"text":"It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["language"],"id":44064,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["books","language","literature","reading","words"],"id":54891,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":63,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}