All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
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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.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you’ve taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!
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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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