But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
ADAM JOHNSONThe darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners.
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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you’ll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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