Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
ADAM JOHNSONWhat’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.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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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.
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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