Adam Johnson Quotes, Inspiration Quotes, Ideas Quotes

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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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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What good's a captive without her captor?

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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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

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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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Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

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

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