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.
ADAM JOHNSONImagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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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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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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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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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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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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