That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
ADAM JOHNSONActing upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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