72 Quotes by Don Roff

I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.

Sometimes the wind made her feel like she was not alone. The icy blasts there seemed to whisper and call her name; they had done so tonight. Not only whispered her name but told her to do it. A frigid voice from somewhere in those January howls had told her to kill them, kill them all.

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre.

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.

When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.