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.
ADAM JOHNSONStill, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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