Quotes by David Guterson

David Guterson

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.

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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.

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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.

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Fiction is socially meaningful.

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He didn’t like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran’s cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.

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

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I became paralyzed as an artist with writer’s block.

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

Grew

Grew Up

Wanted

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

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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.

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Quotes by David Guterson

David Guterson

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.

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.

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.

Fiction is socially meaningful.

He didn’t like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran’s cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.

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

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer’s block.

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

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

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.

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