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 JOHNSONAnd 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.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
-
-
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.
ADAM JOHNSON -
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.
ADAM JOHNSON -
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
ADAM JOHNSON -
I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn’t speak for themselves.
ADAM JOHNSON -
I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
ADAM JOHNSON -
All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
ADAM JOHNSON -
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
ADAM JOHNSON -
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.
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 -
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 -
[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
ADAM JOHNSON -
. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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 -
“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
ADAM JOHNSON -
Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
ADAM JOHNSON






