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.
ADAM JOHNSON. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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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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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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