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Writing Quotes by Don Roff
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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 focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing…
- A migraine is the cockblock of writing.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov