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.
ADAM JOHNSONThe next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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But, in North Korea, it’s just the opposite. There’s one story. It’s written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters.
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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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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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