Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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.
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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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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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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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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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