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David Guterson Quote: “I think of myself as a really happy person.”

51. “I think of myself as a really happy person.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “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.”

52. “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

David Guterson Quote: “What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.”

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

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “One thing has led to the next in my life, but like lines of a poem. I suppose I’ve thrown in my lot with love, and don’t know any other way to go on breathing.”

54. “One thing has led to the next in my life, but like lines of a poem. I suppose I’ve thrown in my lot with love, and don’t know any other way to go on breathing.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “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.”

55. “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.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “I don’t feel anything either way. No feeling about it comes to me – it’s not something I have a choice about. Isn’t a feeling like that supposed to happen? I can’t make a feeling like that up, can I? Maybe God just chooses certain people, and the rest of us – we can’t feel Him.”

56. “I don’t feel anything either way. No feeling about it comes to me – it’s not something I have a choice about. Isn’t a feeling like that supposed to happen? I can’t make a feeling like that up, can I? Maybe God just chooses certain people, and the rest of us – we can’t feel Him.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.”

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

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “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.”

58. “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.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.”

59. “My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “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.”

60. “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

David Guterson Quote: “Everybody knows what God is,′ said his mother. ‘You feel what God is, don’t you?”

61. “Everybody knows what God is,′ said his mother. ‘You feel what God is, don’t you?”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “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.”

62. “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

David Guterson Quote: “The bottom line was that he didn’t want to die. As far as he was concerned, death was the problem. The basic human problem. Everyone’s problem. He wasn’t any different from anyone else, but there was no consolation in that.”

63. “The bottom line was that he didn’t want to die. As far as he was concerned, death was the problem. The basic human problem. Everyone’s problem. He wasn’t any different from anyone else, but there was no consolation in that.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “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.”

64. “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

David Guterson Quote: “I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.”

65. “I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “I’m not an urban person.”

66. “I’m not an urban person.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “Tourists reminded him of other places and elicited in him a prodding doubt that living here was what he wanted.”

67. “Tourists reminded him of other places and elicited in him a prodding doubt that living here was what he wanted.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s easy. There’s a difference between the two. It’s fun in the way all worthwhile things are fun – there’s difficulty attached to it. I think that a writer has to accept a certain amount of frustration. It’s inherent in the task, and you have to simply persevere. It’s part of the definition of the work.”

68. “Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s easy. There’s a difference between the two. It’s fun in the way all worthwhile things are fun – there’s difficulty attached to it. I think that a writer has to accept a certain amount of frustration. It’s inherent in the task, and you have to simply persevere. It’s part of the definition of the work.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “He told himself he had never felt so happy, and he felt a sort of ache that this was happening and would never again happen in just this way no matter how long he lived.”

69. “He told himself he had never felt so happy, and he felt a sort of ache that this was happening and would never again happen in just this way no matter how long he lived.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “The best advice on writing I’ve ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.”

70. “The best advice on writing I’ve ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “Let us so live in this trying time that when it is all over we can look one another in the eye with the knowledge that we have behaved honourably and fairly.”

71. “Let us so live in this trying time that when it is all over we can look one another in the eye with the knowledge that we have behaved honourably and fairly.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “I merely wish to point out that in the face of such a world you have only yourselves to rely on. You have only the decision you must make, each of you, alone. And will you contribute to the indifferent forces that ceaselessly conspire toward injustice? Or will you stand up against this endless tide and in the face of it be truly human?”

72. “I merely wish to point out that in the face of such a world you have only yourselves to rely on. You have only the decision you must make, each of you, alone. And will you contribute to the indifferent forces that ceaselessly conspire toward injustice? Or will you stand up against this endless tide and in the face of it be truly human?”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.”

73. “People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “The place felt sinister, though. Your imagination can get the better of you where a road ends against a forest.”

74. “The place felt sinister, though. Your imagination can get the better of you where a road ends against a forest.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “She sat across from him at the kitchen table at three o’clock in the morning, while he stared in silence or talked or wept, and she took when she could a piece of his sorrow and stored it for him in her own heart.”

75. “She sat across from him at the kitchen table at three o’clock in the morning, while he stared in silence or talked or wept, and she took when she could a piece of his sorrow and stored it for him in her own heart.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “To put this another way, my words here recede from lived experience. But in the end there’s too much reproach and ignorance – depression as a cause for disgrace and contempt – for me not to write them anyway. Words, after all, remain, in this world, an aperture through which might appear some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears.”

76. “To put this another way, my words here recede from lived experience. But in the end there’s too much reproach and ignorance – depression as a cause for disgrace and contempt – for me not to write them anyway. Words, after all, remain, in this world, an aperture through which might appear some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears.”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “Journalism is just the facts.” He had been learning about journalism at school, from a textbook, and it seemed to him that his father had abridged some basic journalistic principle. “But which facts?” Arthur asked him. “Which facts do we print, Ishmael?”

77. “Journalism is just the facts.” He had been learning about journalism at school, from a textbook, and it seemed to him that his father had abridged some basic journalistic principle. “But which facts?” Arthur asked him. “Which facts do we print, Ishmael?”

— David Guterson

David Guterson Quote: “You don’t much think it did,” said Alvin Hooks. “Your opinion is otherwise, it appears. But on what do you base your opinion, sir? You have not denied that my scenario is plausible. You have not denied that this premeditated murder might have happened in precisely the fashion I have just described, have you, Mr. Gillanders – have you?” “No, I haven’t,” Josiah said. “But – ” “No further questions,” said Alvin Hooks.”

78. “You don’t much think it did,” said Alvin Hooks. “Your opinion is otherwise, it appears. But on what do you base your opinion, sir? You have not denied that my scenario is plausible. You have not denied that this premeditated murder might have happened in precisely the fashion I have just described, have you, Mr. Gillanders – have you?” “No, I haven’t,” Josiah said. “But – ” “No further questions,” said Alvin Hooks.”

— David Guterson

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