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.
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.
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 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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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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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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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they’re always with you because they’re a part of you.”
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