All Don Roff Quotes
- Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't. Always Work
- But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about. Don T
- Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. Expectations
- 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. Clothing
- Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind. Creativity
- It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time. Belief
- It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches. Combo
- Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word. Begins
- 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… Begin
- Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere. Authors
- 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. Coming
- A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing. Always Better
- Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping. Any
- 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. Across
- The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. Art
- Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible. Always Mystify
- Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. Better
- A writer always writes. Always Writes
- If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals. Character
- 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… All