Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.
David Guterson

I'm not an urban person.
David Guterson

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

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
David Guterson

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

Fiction is socially meaningful.
David Guterson

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

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