{"author":"Johnny Rich","author_id":"Johnny+Rich","total_quotes":66,"quotes":[{"text":"Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["book-of-job","fiction","fiction-vs-reality","god-s-creation","job","suffering"],"id":3269,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["fun","funeral","funerals","funny","funny-but-sad"],"id":4032,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["cruelty","fiction-vs-reality","human-script","humanity-and-reality","inhumanity","stories","suffering"],"id":9531,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"Adam \u0026 Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["adam-and-eve","dna","genetics","genome","humankind","mankind"],"id":9946,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"These are the things you don’t say, even to someone you love.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["intimacy","lies","love","lover","secrets","things-people-say","unspoken"],"id":15754,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"Publishers 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.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["art","books","business","literature","publisher","publishers","publishing"],"id":18636,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"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unpublished writer should doubt themselves.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.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["creativity","determination","doubt","hard","improvement","learning","learning-from-mistakes","merit","persistence","quality","resilience","unpublished","unpublished-fiction","work","writers","writing"],"id":26478,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["onion","perception","real","reality","veil"],"id":27319,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["cruelty","lies","necessity"],"id":32136,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["comfort","feelings","pain","self-harm","suicide","touch"],"id":32266,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":66,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}