A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
ADAM JOHNSONHad she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
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Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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.
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Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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What’s less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I’ve changed the cat little because I didn’t know what my characters were going to say next.
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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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