Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
ADAM JOHNSONI 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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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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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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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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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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 good’s a captive without her captor?
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