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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

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

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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 conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

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What good's a captive without her captor?

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

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

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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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