David Guterson quotes - page 2

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)
I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years. View quote
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Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm not an urban person. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. View quote
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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. View quote
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None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is. View quote
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That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty. (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 let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again. View quote
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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. View quote
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The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. View quote
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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. View quote
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