Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.

— Johnny Rich

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.

— Johnny Rich

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

— Johnny Rich

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.

— Johnny Rich

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

— Johnny Rich

An unpublished writer should doubt themselves.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

Anyone can be a story. Everyone is.

— Johnny Rich

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

— Johnny Rich

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

— Johnny Rich

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

— Johnny Rich