David Guterson

I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.

— David Guterson

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

— David Guterson

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

— David Guterson

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

— David Guterson

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

— David Guterson

“The rain fell with such fervor that the world disappeared.”

— David Guterson

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

— David Guterson

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

— David Guterson

I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll…

— David Guterson

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players…

— David Guterson

“It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it”

— David Guterson

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing…

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“Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner…

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“today and in a good winter mood, someone not subject to seasonal affective disorder, someone with a generous”

— David Guterson

“To acclimate students to misery under the rubric that so doing prepares them for life is a cynical notion—and a horrifying one.”

— David Guterson

“The color of the sky was like a length of white chalk turned on its side and rubbed into asphalt. Sanded--that was…

— David Guterson

“If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest…

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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…

— David Guterson

“To die, he thought, was to escape passion's grasp, but that was the last thing he wanted. Instead he wished to be…

— David Guterson

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men.…

— David Guterson

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really…

— David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into…

— David Guterson

How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity…

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“An argument ensued about abundance, leisure, work, nature, and what a second girl kept calling 'the American way.' When I asked her…

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“His cynicism - a veteran's cynicism - was a thing that disturbed him all the time. It seemed to him after the…

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“The river of his youth had been diverted and poured out broadly across the land to seep through dirt to the roots…

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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…

— David Guterson

“He had visited his family the evening before, eaten dinner with Renee and Chris, his grandson, in the pretence that everything was…

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“When I think about John William now, I think about someone who followed through, and then I'm glad not to have followed…

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My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

— David Guterson

The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual…

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“He hoped it would snow recklessly and bring to the island the impossible winter purity, so rare and precious, he remembered fondly…

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There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let…

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To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

— 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

“The snowfall obliterated the borders between the fields and made Kabuo Miyamoto's long-cherished seven acres indistinguishable from the land that surrounded them.…

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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,…

— David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire…

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Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having…

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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…

— David Guterson