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

- David Guterson

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that re…

- David Guterson

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

- David Guterson

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 itse…

- David Guterson

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; h…

- David Guterson

None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we l…

- David Guterson

Fiction is socially meaningful.

- David Guterson

The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.

- David Guterson

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

- David Guterson