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.
ADAM JOHNSONLike putting a name to my problems would solve anything
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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