Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
ADAM JOHNSONSometimes 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!
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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