But, in North Korea, it’s just the opposite. There’s one story. It’s written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters.
ADAM JOHNSONUse your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
-
-
Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
ADAM JOHNSON -
What good’s a captive without her captor?
ADAM JOHNSON -
. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
ADAM JOHNSON -
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
ADAM JOHNSON -
In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
ADAM JOHNSON -
The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
ADAM JOHNSON -
Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
ADAM JOHNSON -
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!
ADAM JOHNSON -
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.
ADAM JOHNSON -
Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
ADAM JOHNSON -
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 JOHNSON -
Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
ADAM JOHNSON -
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.
ADAM JOHNSON -
Where we are from… [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro.
ADAM JOHNSON -
I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners.
ADAM JOHNSON






