Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
ADAM JOHNSONThe next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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 next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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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]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 world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn’t speak for themselves.
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