“For me, the natural world is always telling big stories about humongou...” — Anthony Doerr Quote

“For me, the natural world is always telling big stories about humongous scales of time. And I often feel simultaneously terrified and humbled by those scales and in awe, and delighted that I get to be here; that I'm lucky enough, that we are lucky enough to get experience these things for the tiny finger snap of time that we get to be on Earth.”

“I was a nerdy kid.”

“Short stories are not maybe the biggest deal in our culture anymore.”

“I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.”

“When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.”

“I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.”