Growing up in Cleveland, Doerr started humbling himself with writing at an age when most of us were just starting to read books with more words than pictures: "I had spiral notebooks and I wrote stories into them. And so, writing itself has this humility built into it, almost, for me." Language is just this system all the time of failing you're almost expressing what you wanna express, but you can't quite get there. "Come on, really, though? You gotta think you're pretty good?" I like to think I'm getting better at my work." Shauna said, "There were at least five times where he's like, 'I can't do it, and I'm gonna trash it.' And I said, 'You can't! I need to find out what happens! You gotta keep going!'"Īcross hundreds of pages, jumping from one century to the next, one character to the next, the novel's path is intricate, and yet Doerr's thousands of tiny details are dependable breadcrumbs that keep the reader from being lost.ĭoerr said, "I don't think of myself as all that good, yet.
I'm trying to spin all five of these plates in the readers' mind all the time and keep touching them, so the reader doesn't forget what's happening." A schematic of characters in "Cloud Cuckoo Land." "I tried, just for my own mind, to braid their intersections all together.
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