Don Roff

Don Roff

"Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it."
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"Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it."
Don Roff
"It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time."
Don Roff
"Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind."
Don Roff
"Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness."
Don Roff
"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
"Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere."
Don Roff
"Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever."
Don Roff
"You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy."
Don Roff
"We often wait for that knock of opportunity, though I've found it's better to just grab a chainsaw and cut open your own fucking door."
Don Roff
"I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre."
Don Roff
"I write every day whether somebody pays me or not. I write every day whether or not self-doubt is kicking my ass. It's what writers must do."
Don Roff
"You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing."
Don Roff
"If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed."
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."
Don Roff
"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 a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word."
Don Roff
"If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals."
Don Roff
"A migraine is the cockblock of writing."
Don Roff
"I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it."
Don Roff
"The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement."
Don Roff
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