Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
ADAM JOHNSONImagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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And secretly, he’d be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
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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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Where we are from… [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro.
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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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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
ADAM JOHNSON