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 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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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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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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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