Don Roff (born December 13, 1966, in Walla Walla, Washington) is a writer and filmmaker.
When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked.
It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.
Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.
A migraine is the cockblock of writing.
Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
A writer always writes.
Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.
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.
Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.
It’s hard to land a devastating jabcrosshookuppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.
A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.
If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.
Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.
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.