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 JOHNSONTo 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.”
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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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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But, in North Korea, it’s just the opposite. There’s one story. It’s written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters.
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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