For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.
Anthony DoerrSo how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?
Anthony DoerrI 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.
Anthony DoerrWWII 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