Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
ADAM JOHNSONImagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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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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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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Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
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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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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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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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