Being in an M.F.A. is like living in a sci-fi biosphere on an alien planet, where everyone shares your obscure visionary notions: namely, that literature matters, that English professors know more than other people, that typing, alone, in a library, is what everyone should be doing on a Friday night. Better to tell strangers that speaking Klingon is what turns you on.
Adam JohnsonWriting 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.
Adam JohnsonStichwörter: writing characters story writer
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
Adam JohnsonStichwörter: story
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.
Adam JohnsonStichwörter: inspiration write writer fictional
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
Adam JohnsonStichwörter: orphans
The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
Adam JohnsonBut people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.
Adam JohnsonThe 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.
Adam JohnsonWhere 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.
Adam Johnson[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
Adam JohnsonStichwörter: america capitalism economics communism obedience north-korea
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