“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a… — adam johnson Copy Share Image
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… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“Was this what a family was, how it grew—straight as the children’s teeth? Sure, there was an arm in a sling and over time… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“Real stories like this, human ones, could get you sent to prison, and it didn’t matter what they were about. It didn’t matter if… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t that I didn’t know anyone’s phone number—I didn’t—it was that only at this moment did I realize I had no one to… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“But I held her in my heart, and would stay with her all my days, even if a great many of them were trying… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw. — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“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… — adam johnson Copy Share Image
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