"I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years."

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"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Identity, Church, Army, Day

"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Identity, Darkness, Death, Mental

"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

bell hooks, American Critic

Identity, Violence, Adolescence, Emotion

"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Identity, Individual, Experience, Self

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

Identity, Truth, Emotion, Wisdom, Power

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Identity, Writer, Expression, Self

"I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Identity, Womanhood, Strength, Pride

"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."

Anais Nin, American Author

Identity, First, Right, Woman

"Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Identity, Race, Perception, Life

"Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be."

Craig Groeschel, American Author

Identity, Uniqueness, Creativity, Freedom

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"Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need."

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"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."

Freedom

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

Society

"I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute."

Law

"I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are."

Duty

"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 itself. And you see how full and complex it is."

World

"Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young."

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"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

"I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me."

"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."

"Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored."

"Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be."

Explore more quotes by David Guterson

"Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need."

"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."

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

"I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute."

"I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are."

"Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs."

"I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that."

"What sustains me is to be with my family and to write."

"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 itself. And you see how full and complex it is."

"Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young."