Adam Johnson Quotes, People Quotes

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 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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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 cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

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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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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. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.

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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

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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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