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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

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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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[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

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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 a book that is truly about the character at its center.

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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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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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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 of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

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What good's a captive without her captor?

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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - 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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

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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. 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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

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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 looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.

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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

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I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

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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! Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!

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