David Guterson Quotes

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.
David Guterson

Wanted, Leave, Knew

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.
David Guterson

Tell, Moral, Write

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.
David Guterson

Place, Left, Romance

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
David Guterson

Time, Serenity, Melancholy

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.
David Guterson

Freedom, Possible, Within

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
David Guterson

Tension, Melancholy, Cities

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.
David Guterson

Men, Mind, Hero

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.
David Guterson

Book, May, Write

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.
David Guterson

Until, Everybody, Full

Fiction is socially meaningful.
David Guterson

Meaningful, Fiction, Socially

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.
David Guterson

Said, Place, Write

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.
David Guterson

Artist, Writer, Block

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.
David Guterson

Fight, Used, Author

I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years.
David Guterson

Time, Strong, Feeling

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.
David Guterson

Him, Trials, Wanted

I think of myself as a really happy person.
David Guterson

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
David Guterson

Writer, Share, Obligation

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
David Guterson

Successful, Live, Book

I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.
David Guterson

Here, State, Born

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.
David Guterson

Politics, History, Writing

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.
David Guterson

Interested, Generation, Endure

I'm not an urban person.
David Guterson

It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.
David Guterson

Matter, Won, Popular

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
David Guterson

Melancholy, Brooding, Haunts

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.
David Guterson

Book, Spirit, Counter

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 4, 1956

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