The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
ADAM JOHNSONUse your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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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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