David Guterson

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

— David Guterson

#left #nostalgia #place #romance #you

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

— David Guterson

#feel #grasp #i #interpret #melancholy

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

#amount #certain #condemned #confines #freedom

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

— David Guterson

#i #me #melancholy #need #produce

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

#both #comes #comparison #don quixote #generally

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 #doing #emerge #even #i

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

#completely #complex #entire #entire world #everybody

Fiction is socially meaningful. ↗

— David Guterson

#meaningful #socially

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

— David Guterson

#hemingway #leave #only #place #said

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

— David Guterson

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