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Anthony Doerr on CLOUD CUCKOO LAND

Poured Over

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The Sun Blanked on the Water

As a writer, i'm often trying to disrupt those habits. You're reading a sentence, you're guessing, because the brain is in such a hurry always to be efficient. So i just think choosing child characters is a way to say, let's peel back some of the habit,. And for them, the way joan of arc also recognized the power of gunpowder and was like, fi out really efficient ways to kill english people. Like, young people just readily see things. There's wisdom with age, but i'm just fascinated to see how young people confront and experience and see the world. It's away from me to try to stay new and young and not waste any of

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