Johnny Rich

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

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

“To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.”

“Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness”

“The 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.”

“Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.”

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

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

“Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.”