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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

Topics: America Center Change Characters Conflicts Defining Desires Each Every Fiction Find Grow Her Here His Individualism Job Motivations Obstacles Other Our Ourselves Overcome Own People Person Stories Story Tell Toward

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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 be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

~Adam Johnson

Topics: Acting Actions Censored Change Character Dangerous Desire Entire Essential Feelings Growth Had Hidden Human Human Actions Lest Longing Personal Populace Punished Revealing Self Spontaneity State Think True Were Whispering Your

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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.

~Adam Johnson

Topics: Aptitude Certain Characters Dictated Farmer Fisherman Jobs Just Kim Korea Life Measured Million Million People North North Korea Opera Opera Singer Opposite People Regime Rest Secondary Singer Story Towards Whether Written You Your Youth

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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

Topics: America Any Become Change Different Everyone Going Know Life Reinvent Says Someone Things True Turn Well You Yourself

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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.

~Adam Johnson

Topics: Cheesy Did Duty Feel Know People Really Sounds Speak Stories Tell Themselves Try Who

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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

Topics: Alternate Ate Bark Bombarded Day Day And Night Elite Existence Feels He Korea Masses Mix Mount Night North Off People Propaganda Reader Reality Sadism Starving Trees Where Who Whose

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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.

~Adam Johnson

Topics: Cast Country Death Dictator Eyes Freedom Kim Korea Literature North North Korea Truth Without

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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

Topics: Citizens Discover Foreigners Genuine Had Highly Illegal Interactions Known Korea Look North North Korea Only Possible Scripted Since Speak Still Them Thought Unique Visit Would Wrong

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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.

~Adam Johnson

Topics: About Book Center Character Imagine Literary Novel Person Place Read Single Single Person Sixty Truly Where Which World Writer Written Years

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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.

~Adam Johnson

Topics: Attention Books Cast Current Elusive Focused Korea Light Might Much North North Korea Rare Realm Share Think Thought Three Topic Which I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 12th, 1967

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