For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
ADAM JOHNSON. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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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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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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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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