#writ

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

#compulsion #consider #deeply #duty #ethical

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

— David Guterson

#hemingway #leave #only #place #said

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

— David Guterson

#became #block #i #paralyzed #writer

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#i #second #started #third #trying

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer. ↗

— David Guterson

#i think #know #obligation #share #think

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

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write. ↗

— David Guterson

#me #sustains #write

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer. ↗

— David Guterson

#college #creative #creative writing #decided #i

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

I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#afternoon #again #bit #day #done