Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down!
ADAM JOHNSONActing upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
More Adam Johnson Quotes
-
-
I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
ADAM JOHNSON -
To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they’re always with you because they’re a part of you.”
ADAM JOHNSON -
I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn’t speak for themselves.
ADAM JOHNSON -
That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
ADAM JOHNSON -
And secretly, he’d be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
ADAM JOHNSON -
The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.
ADAM JOHNSON -
All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
ADAM JOHNSON -
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
ADAM JOHNSON -
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
ADAM JOHNSON -
All the human actions we think of as essential to a character – had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
ADAM JOHNSON -
Where we are from… [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro.
ADAM JOHNSON -
But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
ADAM JOHNSON -
Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
ADAM JOHNSON -
But, in North Korea, it’s just the opposite. There’s one story. It’s written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters.
ADAM JOHNSON -
The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
ADAM JOHNSON