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• I think of myself as a really happy person.

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• 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.

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• I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years.

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

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

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• I became paralyzed as an artist with writer’s block.

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

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• Fiction is socially Fiction meaningful.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don’t need.

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• 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.

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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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