Top 33 Quotes by David Guterson

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

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

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

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.

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

Fiction is socially meaningful.

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

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.

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.

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