American - Author | May 4, 1956 -
There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.
David Guterson
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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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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.
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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 lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
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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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Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
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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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Fiction is socially meaningful.
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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.
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