Don Roff famous quotes

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.
-- Don Roff

#People #Belief #Right Time

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 Roff

#Talking #People #Towns

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
-- Don Roff

#Art #Movement #Recipes

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.
-- Don Roff

#Writing

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.
-- Don Roff

#Expectations #Trying #Sometimes

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.
-- Don Roff

#Creative #Students #Assuming

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.
-- Don Roff

#Procrastination #Panic #Efficiency

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 error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.
-- Don Roff

#Writing #Journey #Errors

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
-- Don Roff

#Writing #Surprise #Torture

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
-- Don Roff

#Block #Writing #Ice Cream

A writer always writes.
-- Don Roff

#Writing

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.
-- Don Roff

#Character #People #Rewards

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
-- Don Roff

#Rays #Conversation #Bradbury

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

#Writing #Scare #Fiction

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.
-- Don Roff

#Criminals #Sometimes #Crime

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.
-- Don Roff

#Running #Reality #Years

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.
-- Don Roff

#Character #Doors #Feet

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.
-- Don Roff

#Writing #Stories #Length

It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.
-- Don Roff

#Land #Imagination #Hook

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.
-- Don Roff

#Creativity #Self #Doubt

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.
-- Don Roff

#Fun #Writing #Naked

Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.
-- Don Roff

#People #Helping #Surround Yourself

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.
-- Don Roff

#Writing #Migraine

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 more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.
-- Don Roff

#Writing #Heart #Character

You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.
-- Don Roff

#Everyday #Shows