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"The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own."

"The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes."

"Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant."

"The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects."

"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
Explore more quotes by David Guterson

"Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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