72 Quotes by Don Roff

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

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

If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.

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

Novel writing, I’ve discovered, is the most liberating. You can write the narrative in the past, present, or future, and from virtually any viewpoint or philosophy, including your own. The only keeper you answer to is your own creativity. It’s total autonomy.

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

A writer always writes.

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.

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.