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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.

Adam Johnson

Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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Action Desire Feeling Hidden Longing Personal Revealing True Whispering
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
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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Future Imagination never Past Present Use
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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Daisies Eat Flower Hungry Life Marigold never Pansies Rose
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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Biggest Champion Clear Dust Hit Knock Nothing Offer Standing Victor
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’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
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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Anything Character Good Hard Process Story Work Writing
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
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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Before Gone Match Nothing Out Strike Ten Thousand Today Tomorrow
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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Darkness Head Imagination Inside Nothing Real Stories
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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Alive Always Face Heart Inside Matter Part Someone
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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Book Center Character Imagine Person Place Read Single Truly
Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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Anything Names Problem Putting Solve
But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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After Done Live People Survive Thing
I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
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Attention Book Current Focused Light Share Thinking Topic

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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