David Guterson Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

  David Guterson

  People, Serenity, Literature

• 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.

  David Guterson

  Book, Successful, Expectations

• 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.

  David Guterson

  Growing Up, Trials, Literature

• My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

  David Guterson

  Running, Book, Literature

• 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.

  David Guterson

  Real, Responsibility, Giving

• 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.

  David Guterson

  Who I Am, Play, Together

• 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.

  David Guterson

  Hero, Journey, Men

• 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.

  David Guterson

  Book, Writing, Player

• 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.

  David Guterson

  Strong, Doors, Years

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

  David Guterson

  Years, Literature, Washington State

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

  David Guterson

  Generations, Literature, Theme

• I'm not an urban person.

  David Guterson

  Literature, Urban, Persons

• Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

  David Guterson

  Needs, Literature, Addresses

• When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

  David Guterson

  Falling In Love, Book, Writing

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

  David Guterson

  Writing, College, Class

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

  David Guterson

  Writing, Literature, Way

• I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

  David Guterson

  Block, Artist, Literature

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