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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.

~David Guterson

Topics: Because Both Comparison Don Quixote Generally Hero Involve Journey Journeys Men Mind Mine Older Older Men Quixote Story Undertaken Unusual Very Young

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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.

~David Guterson

Topics: Because Compulsion Consider Deeply Duty Ethical Feel First Forces Inner Inspire Me Moral More Readers Responsible Second Something Stories Tell Unconscious Who Write I Feel I Write

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There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

~David Guterson

Topics: Certain Left Nostalgia Place Romance You

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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.

~David Guterson

Topics: Begin Complex Entire Entire World Everybody Full Hidden How Inquire Itself Opens See Soon Until Us World Yields You

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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.

~David Guterson

Topics: Among Amount Certain Condemned Confines Freedom Level Possible Range Those Voice Voices Within You Your

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Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

~David Guterson

Topics: Cities Me Melancholy Need Produce Tension

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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.

~David Guterson

Topics: Almost Book Doing Emerge Even Insisting Intend Just Major May Out Places Players Set Though Write I May Not

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Fiction is socially meaningful.

~David Guterson

Topics: Fiction Meaningful Socially

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

~David Guterson

Topics: About Hemingway Leave Only Place Said Way Write

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

~David Guterson

Topics: Artist Became Block Paralyzed Writer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 4th, 1956

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