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David Guterson
American
Author
Born:
May 4
,
1956
Book
Brooding
Me
Time
Writing
You
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Zig Ziglar
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
You
World
Everybody
Inquire
Complex
Hidden
See
Entire
Entire World
Soon
Opens
Until
How
Itself
Begin
Yields
Us
Full
There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.
David Guterson
You
Left
Romance
Nostalgia
Place
Certain
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
David Guterson
Time
People
Some People
Melancholy
Brooding
Some
Feel
Required
Grasp
Serenity
Interpret
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
Time
Me
Change
Together
Words
Hide
Made
Keyboard
Pretend
Study
Beyond
Am
Woke
Tapping
Up
Author
Role
Gradually
Just
Public
Public Figure
Realization
Figure
Who
Away
Play
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
Freedom
You
Range
Those
Possible
Voice
Voices
Within
Condemned
Confines
Certain
Your
Among
Amount
Level
Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
David Guterson
Me
Melancholy
Cities
Tension
Produce
Need
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
Though
Out
Emerge
Insisting
Write
Almost
Major
Doing
Intend
May
Just
Places
Even
Players
Set
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.
David Guterson
Way
About
Only
Write
Said
Leave
Place
Hemingway
I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.
David Guterson
Paralyzed
Writer
Became
Block
Artist
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.
David Guterson
Time
Strong
Feeling
Doors
State
Spent
Out
Strong Feeling
Entire
About
Had
Columbia
Known
Years
Lot
Quite
Quite A While
While
Landscape
Many
Traveled
I think of myself as a really happy person.
David Guterson
Myself
Happy
Think
Person
Happy Person
Really
I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
David Guterson
You
Obligation
Think
Writer
Share
Know
I'm not an urban person.
David Guterson
Person
Urban
Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.
David Guterson
Needs
Address
Dead
Because
Human
Human Needs
When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
David Guterson
Class
Creative
Writing
College
Took
Week
Writer
Decided
Creative Writing
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