Quotes by : David Guterson

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban....

To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow....

If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done.....

The bottom line was that he didn't want to die. As far as he was concerned, death was the problem. The....

When I think about John William now, I think about someone who followed through, and then I'm glad not....

As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, they're....

The river of his youth had been diverted and poured out broadly across the land to seep through dirt....

It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live....

I say this because as an older man I am prone to ponder matters in the light of death in a way that you....

He had visited his family the evening before, eaten dinner with Renee and Chris, his grandson, in the....

The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she....