#he

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

— David Guterson

#here #i #i was born #lived #plus

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#around #away #cotton #did #far

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

— David Guterson

#hemingway #leave #only #place #said

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. ↗

— David Guterson

#cases #commute #growing #growing up #heard

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. ↗

— David Guterson

#fictional #finally #find #fits #history

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area. ↗

— David Guterson

#attorney #criminal #criminal law #father #law

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. ↗

— David Guterson

#author #away #beyond #change #figure

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

#almost #basis #became #becoming #being

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#also #another #challenge #challenges #eagerly

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#make #more #only #screen #screen actors