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 JOHNSONAll the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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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 next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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