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• It doesn’t matter who you are, how many awards you’ve won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you’ve had.

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• It’s a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

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• My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

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

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

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• 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.

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• There’s a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you’re deathly afraid that you’re not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

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• 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.

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David Guterson (33)

Birth:	4th May, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

David Guterson was born in Seattle, Washington. He is an American novelist and short story writer. He earned Bachelor of Arts Degree in English literature and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing. His first book, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind published in 1989. His second book, Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense, was published in 1992. As of 2014 his third, and so far most popular novel, is Snow Falling on Cedars, published in 1994. Guterson's subsequent novels include East of the Mountains, Our Lady of the Forest, The Other, and Ed King.

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