72 Quotes by Don Roff

Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.

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.

Kindness, motherfucker, kindness.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

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.

If you're the 'brilliant writer' in the room, you're in the wrong writers' room.

Writing is dreaming with your eyes open — and your heart on fire.

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.

If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.