But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
ADAM JOHNSONImagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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 thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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