For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
ADAM JOHNSONI am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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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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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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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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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Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
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