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Anthony Doerr

"I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on."

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"I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on."

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Donna Grant

"Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar."

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Donna Grant

"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."

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Donna Grant

"As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio."

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Donna Grant

"I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on."

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Donna Grant

"Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway."

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Donna Grant

"The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility."

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Donna Grant

"I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries."

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Donna Grant

"My driving force is spirituality."

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Donna Grant

"The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism."

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Donna Grant

"I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts."

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Anthony Doerr
"I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out."

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Anthony Doerr
"For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline."

Work

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Anthony Doerr
"Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die."

Care

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Anthony Doerr
"It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines."

Work

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Anthony Doerr
"I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff."

Writing

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Anthony Doerr
"I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books."

Science

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Anthony Doerr
"I guess you could say I've been writing all my life."

Life

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Anthony Doerr
"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."

Time

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Anthony Doerr
"I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words."

Friendship

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Anthony Doerr
"I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on."

Driving

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