“The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around… — Adam Johnson Darkness 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… — Adam Johnson Children 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… — Adam Johnson Leadership Copy Share Image
“To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero” — Adam Johnson Coward 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… — Adam Johnson Friendship 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… — Adam Johnson Great man Copy Share Image
The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw. — Adam Johnson Breakfast 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… — adam johnson Creativity 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 Aptitude Copy Share Image
“What was it about English speakers that allowed them to talk into transmitters as if the sky were a diary?” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“It’s okay if you can’t make sense of that. I’ve tried and tried, but I can’t grasp it, either. The most vital… — Adam Johnson Hidden meaning Copy Share Image
“Stories are factual...If a man and his story are in conflict it is the man who must change.....In America it is the… — Adam Johnson War Copy Share Image
“You can't leave me. I'm your captive," she said. "What good's a captive without her captor?” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“Aren’t our lives a collision of the comic and the uncertain and the terrifying and the mundane?” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“Graffiti, citizens, is the name for the way capitalists deface their public buildings.” — Adam Johnson Graffiti Copy Share Image
“His mind and his flesh had separated, his brain had sat high and frightened above the mule of his body, a beast… — Adam Johnson Psychology Copy Share Image
“Inside is where the son and the father will always be holding hands.” — Adam Johnson Father Copy Share Image
“When the dogs returned, the Senator gave them treats from his pocket, and Jun Do understood that in communism, you'd threaten a… — Adam Johnson Capitalism 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 Cheesy Copy Share Image
