A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
ADAM JOHNSONThe next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
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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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you’ll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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