Adam Johnson Quotes, Jobs Quotes, Motivation Quotes

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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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

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

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What good's a captive without her captor?

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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

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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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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

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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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