“I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, b...” — Anthony Doerr Quote

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

“Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.”

“I don't believe in reincarnation. I feel like we're here for such an appallingly brief period of time. I believe we each get this one trip, and if we're really, really fortunate, maybe we get 70 or 80 years on Earth.”

“If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.”

“I wanted to work with Sriram Raghavan, the master of noir.”

“I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master writer.”