David Guterson People Quotations

People were going to wonder about me, about who I am and what makes me tick, and with time I decided that it didn't really bother me to share that.

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

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it.

He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.