Like Putting A Name To My Problems

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.

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.

The Darkness Inside Your Head Is Something Your Imagination Fills With Stories That Have Nothing To Do With The Real Darkness Around You.

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.

"a Name Isn't A Person." Ga Said. "don't Ever Remember Someone By Their Name. To Keep Someone Alive, You Put Them Inside You, You Put Their Face On Your Heart. Then, No Matter Where You Are, They're Always With You Because They're A Part Of You."