David Guterson Quotes

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

I'm on a search for the truth.

It's always interesting exploring something that has dimensions and layers to it.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

I like people who would rather something be discovered than shoved in your face.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.