What good’s a captive without her captor?
ADAM JOHNSONFor an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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!
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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.
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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.”
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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Writing is hard work, and if anything’s true about the process, it’s that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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.
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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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That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
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I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
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The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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