David Guterson Quotes & Sayings
33 most famous David Guterson quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.”
“What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think of myself as a really happy person.”
“It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.”
“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.”
“I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.”
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