Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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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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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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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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.
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