02UndatedDoing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
03UndatedLike all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
04UndatedThe characters act for reasons that they can’t control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it’s all just puppetry on the part of the writer.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
07UndatedReality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
08UndatedFor someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
09UndatedIt is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
10UndatedYou need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
12UndatedIs the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?Johnny Rich / quote ↗
16UndatedJob understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his sufferingJohnny Rich / quote ↗
17UndatedSuffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
18UndatedI may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
20UndatedAn unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
21UndatedAll life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
22UndatedBecause he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
23UndatedPublishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
