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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. "
Possible
Freedom
Voice
" Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. "
Melancholy
Me
Need
" 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. "
Mind
Journey
Hero
" 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. "
Almost
Book
Doing
" 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
You
See
" Fiction is socially meaningful. "
Fiction
Socially
Meaningful
" Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it. "
Way
Leave
Only
" I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. "
Paralyzed
Writer
Artist
" I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave. "
Always
Knew
Leave
" I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that. "
Persona
Author
Used
" 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. "
Doors
Feeling
Landscape
" I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation. "
Endure
Generation
Themes
" I'm not an urban person. "
Person
Urban
" 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. "
Late
Growing
Want
" It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had. "
Awards
You
Won
" I think of myself as a really happy person. "
Happy
Think
Person
" I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer. "
Writer
You
I Think
" It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. "
Brooding
Me
Melancholy
" I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged. "
Successful
Live
Way
" I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years. "
Lived
Here
Born
" I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. "
World
News
History
" 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. "
Moral
Duty
Ethical
" My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit. "
Counter
Book
Runs
" My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area. "
Seattle
Practicing
Area
" Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs. "
Dead
Because
Human
" The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer. "
Three
React
Real
" There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left. "
Place
Left
You
" Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. "
Time
I Am
Change
" What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. "
Feel
Time
Some
" What sustains me is to be with my family and to write. "
Me
Write
Sustains
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