Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
ADAM JOHNSONStill, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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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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Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
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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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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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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
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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.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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