Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
ADAM JOHNSONThat hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn’t speak for themselves.
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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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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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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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you’ve taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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