A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
ADAM JOHNSONWhat’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.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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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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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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