"Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience……" — Don Roff
"Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible."
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23 Quotes by Don Roff
Don Roff has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.
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- Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible. — Stonewall Jackson