Migraine Quote by Don Roff Download Open image “A migraine is the cockblock of writing.” — Don Roff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Migraine Writing
That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“And once it comes, now that I am wise in its ways, I no longer fight it. I lie down and let it happen. At first every small apprehension is magnified, every anxiety a pounding terror. Then the pain comes, and I concentrate only on that. Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed toga, the concentration… — Joan Didion Copy Share
I've come to understand that migraine is a part of the personality. I have migraine troughs. These often follow high productivity. I have a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Writing can be a splendid headache. Fun when words spill forth like a raging river and a catastrophic, hair-pulling experience when they won't.” — Adam Santo Copy Share Image
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Because I work at other things, whenever I get a chance to write I feel grateful for it. But I learned that sometimes, I… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
“Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't function as… — Myriam Gurba Copy Share Image
When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
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. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I didn't fit into the Christian college my parents sent me to. I felt tarnished by tragedy, between my brother's death and Escuela Caribe, and everyone else seemed so carefree and happy and praising God. I couldn't stand happy people for a long time, and was plagued by chronic migraines and stomach aches. I'd say between age thirteen and twenty-three… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share
Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes, ten or… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“And then a throb hits you on the left ide of the head so hard that your head bobs to the right...There's no way… — Andrew Levy Copy Share Image
“Everything is infected with brightness, throbbing with it, and she prays for dark the way a wanderer lost in the desert prays for water. The world is every bit as barren of darkness as a desert is of water. There is no dark in the shuttered room, no dark behind her eyelids. There are only greater and lesser degrees of… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches… — Morgan Fairchild Copy Share Image
Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I got my first migraine on my first day of work in TV in 2001... it was debilitating. — Brooke Baldwin Copy Share Image
My daughter is a real migraine sufferer; the minute she has a handful of Haribo sweets, she gets a headache. There's a connection between… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
