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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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I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners.
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Citizen Country Genuine Highly Illegal InterAction Scripted Unique Visit
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Choose Father Love Much One Orphan Twice
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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Familiar Fresh Good Inevitable Stories Story
I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Champion Motivational Self Shadow Standing
The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Breakfast Day Murdered Next Onion Raw Served She Silent
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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Experience Forever Ghost Living Only People Range
“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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Alive Heart Name Person Remember Someone
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Change Character Dangerous Entire Growth Populace Self Thinking
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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Alone Character Edgy Less Little Next Romantic Staring
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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Book Character City Imagine Literary Novel World Written Year
Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
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Blind Bring Corner Dropped Dust Each Learnt Life Motivational Prepare Smash Stronger Taken
What good’s a captive without her captor?
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Captive Captor Good Question
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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Come Create Fictional Idea Inspiration Mysterious Narrative Sense Stories Visible Write
. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Every Loyalty Nobody Taught
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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Cast Country Death Dictator Eye Freedom Literature Truth
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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Again Buckle Conjure Drive Keeping Knee Strength

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