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Top 35 Don Roff Quotes (2025 Update)

Don Roff Quote: “Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.”
Don Roff Quote: “A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.”
Don Roff Quote: “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 Quote: “A migraine is the cockblock of writing.”
Don Roff Quote: “It’s my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.”
Don Roff Quote: “It’s better to write something, anything, than to starve the monster. The monster must feed. And it will feed on your soul if not your words. Its appetite is insatiable. Write to save yourself from the monster.”
Don Roff Quote: “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 Quote: “Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.”
Don Roff Quote: “Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.”
Don Roff Quote: “Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat – chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange.”
Don Roff Quote: “Nothing’s a better cure for writer’s block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.”
Don Roff Quote: “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 Quote: “Mothman flew away from town, like a giant bat, and then disappeared from sight behind a thicket of skeletal autumn trees.”
Don Roff Quote: “Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness.”
Don Roff Quote: “Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.”
Don Roff Quote: “A writer always writes.”
Don Roff Quote: “The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.”
Don Roff Quote: “Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.”
Don Roff Quote: “Sometimes the wind made her feel like she was not alone. The icy blasts there seemed to whisper and call her name; they had done so tonight. Not only whispered her name but told her to do it. A frigid voice from somewhere in those January howls had told her to kill them, kill them all.”
Don Roff Quote: “You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”
Don Roff Quote: “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 Quote: “If you treat your characters like people, they’ll reward you by being fully developed individuals.”
Don Roff Quote: “Regarding the creative: never assume you’re the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you’re masterful.”
Don Roff Quote: “Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.”
Don Roff Quote: “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 Quote: “I’ve found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.”
Don Roff Quote: “Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.”
Don Roff Quote: “Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.”
Don Roff Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don’t know where the story’s going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.”
Don Roff Quote: “Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.”
Don Roff Quote: “Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.”
Don Roff Quote: “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 Quote: “The best writers I’ve read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.”
Don Roff Quote: “The central message of the Clare series, I think, is not to underestimate or marginalize those who you deem weaker or different than yourself as you have no idea what they’re capable of. You never know – those of whom you relentlessly persecute may just end up killing you.”
Don Roff Quote: “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 Quote: “Writing is dreaming with your eyes open – and your heart on fire.”
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