Adam Johnson

"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."

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

"... that "take" was a word people used for those who had so little to give as to be immeasurable."

"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."

"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."