The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
ADAM JOHNSONUse your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you’ve taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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.
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