“I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try ...” — Anthony Doerr Quote

“I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you should push yourself to try to persuade your reader that you have the authority to engage with people who, you know, lived in the past, who live in the future, other genders, other places, other cultures.”

“We Americans are churning through fresh water at an alarming and unsustainable rate.”

“I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.”

“Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.”

“Some stories are true that never happened.”

“To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.”