Glenn Rolfe > Glenn's Quotes

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three

“Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.”
― Robert R. McCammon, Boy's Life

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Then I got back to the house, and all I worried about was my story and the people in it--bags of bones which were putting on flesh daily.”
― Stephen King

“For the first time I saw Death as somebody to fear instead of the gangly sack of bones who ate all of my Cheetos and saved over my games on the Playstation.”
― Mercedes M. Yardley, Beautiful Sorrows

“Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.”
― Sherman Alexie

“Save it fucker. I'm gonna slit you open and gut you like a fish and pull out your insides. I'm going to show you the black stuff inside your belly, and then I'm gonna make you eat it.”
― Brian Keene, The Conqueror Worms

“But it all fades, drying up and evaporating like beads of water on skin after a swim in July.”
― Glenn Rolfe, Slush

“In that moment we transcended the bonds of our physical beings, our souls clinging to the remnants of the innocence that had been stolen from us.”
― Glenn Rolfe, Slush

“The silence was suddenly too much. He hit the CD button on the car’s radio. Brian Jones’s sitar riff opened for Charlie Watts tribal-like drumbeat thundering from the speakers. Keith Richards’ jangly guitar joined in, followed by Mick singing about seeing a red door that he wanted to paint black.”
― Glenn Rolfe, Becoming

“Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.”
― Stephen King, It

“I never knew someone dumb enough to accost a man with a samurai sword, but someone always had to be the first.”
― Glenn Rolfe, Land of Bones

“That’s okay, I don’t take requests or orders. I am free.”
― Jackson R. Thomas, The Beast of Brenton Woods