Don Roff Quotes

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• Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.
• But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.
• Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.
• 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.
• Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.
• It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.
• It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.
• Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.
• There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first…
• Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.
• 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.
• 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.
• Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.
• The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
• Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
• Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
• A writer always writes.
• If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.
• 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…

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