Adam Johnson Quotes:- Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967) is an American novelist and short-story writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, The Orphan Master’s Son, and the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection Fortune Smiles. Johnson is currently a San Francisco writer and professor in creative writing[2] at Stanford University.
Inspirational Adam Johnson Quotes
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.
Adam Johnson
It’s true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren’t going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.
Adam Johnson
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea’s alternate reality.
Adam Johnson
I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
Adam Johnson
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.
Adam Johnson
Famous Quotes by Adam Johnson
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.
Adam Johnson
I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books that cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
Adam Johnson
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings – all the human actions we think of as essential to a character – had to be censored by the self lest they are punished by the state.
Adam Johnson
