David Guterson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s easy. There’s a difference between the two. It’s fun in the way all worthwhile things are fun – there’s difficulty attached to it. I think that a writer has to accept a certain amount of frustration. It’s inherent in the task, and you have to simply persevere. It’s part of the definition of the work.”
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“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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“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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“accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
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“There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.”
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“The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.”
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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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“I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.”
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“I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.”
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“I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.”
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“I think of myself as a really happy person.”
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“I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.”
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“I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.”
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“Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.”
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“What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.”
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“When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.”
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“Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.”
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“The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.”
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“My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.”
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“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.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.”
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“We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.”
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“I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.”
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“Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.”
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“Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.”
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“The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.”
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