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 JOHNSONOrphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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