In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
ADAM JOHNSONImagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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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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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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