Quotes by Johnny Rich

“This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.”

“Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.”

“Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.”

“I may not be free, but Im not about to surrender the illusion of choice.”

“The future is certain. It is just not known.”

“Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.”

“The characters act for reasons that they cant 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, ...”

“I stare out at the real world projected on the windows”

“His suffering was no more real than he was.”

“An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what theyre creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they cant mak...”

“Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.”

“For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.”

“It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.”

“You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.”

“All 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.”

“Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around.”

“I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.”

“Publishers are businesses and I dont blame them for that. If they didnt make money by publishing books, there wouldnt be any books.”

“A good book is not the same as a successful one.”

“A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.”