In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
ADAM JOHNSONA good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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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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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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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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