72 Quotes by Don Roff

We often wait for that knock of opportunity, though I've found it's better to just grab a chainsaw and cut open your own fucking door.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Fucking government suck-ass equipment,' Kohlman said. 'Everything the Army uses was made by the lowest bidder. Probably got free toasters with that Podunk piece of shit.

Mothman flew away from town, like a giant bat, and then disappeared from sight behind a thicket of skeletal autumn trees.

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.