Adam Johnson Quotes

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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…
• But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.
• The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You…
• 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.…
• The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
• [I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
• Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
• Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
• Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
• In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
• . . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
• 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…
• A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put…
• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center…
• The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
• For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all…
• Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read…
• I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which…

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