Johnny Rich

An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they__e creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can__ make it better.

The future is certain. It is just not known.

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

I may not be free, but I__ not about to surrender the illusion of choice.

Stories are just lies made to look like truth.

Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.

I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.

Job understood that he was nothing more than God__ invention and so too was his suffering

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

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

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

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

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

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

I stare out at the real world projected on the windows

His suffering was no more real than he was.

The characters act for reasons that they can__ 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__ all just puppetry on the part of the writer.

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