David Guterson
David Guterson
David Gutersonis an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist. He is best known as the author of the book Snow Falling on Cedars...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 May 1956
CitySeattle, WA
CountryUnited States of America
needs addresses modernism
Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.
urban persons
I'm not an urban person.
writing way said
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.
strong doors years
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.
life summer real
To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.
father law criminals
My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.
grew grew-up wanted
I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.
book successful expectations
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
teacher book writing
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.
philosophy reflection perspective
To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective
writing advice wells
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.
people serenity quiet
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
meaningful fiction
Fiction is socially meaningful.
order achievement highest
A literary achievement of the highest order.