A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.
– Don Roff
Related Quotes:
- 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 schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life–whether it’s writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It’s yours. – Don Roff
- Don’t think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the mother????ing story. – Don Roff
- 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
- Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness. – Don Roff
- 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
- The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
- Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
- Writing to corroborate what you already think is the essence of bad writing. – Victor LaValle
- Music has become my driving force behind my life, it to me, can fix bad moods, bad days, even bad people. It is the beat of my life. – Rian Dawson
- Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny. – Criss Jami
- Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective – Colleen Hoover
- If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell. – James Purdy
- Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It’s just too bad. – Jincy Willett
- Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn’t make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad. – Kavita Kan
- Writing is my passion and burns in me like a fire. I’m always writing and honing my skills to feed the flames. – Gabriela M Sanchez
- If you write a kid’s book only for kids, then you have failed. – 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
- 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
- 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 ????ing door. – 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
- Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever. – Don Roff
- Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere. – 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
- Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness. – Don Roff
- Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind. – Don Roff
- It’s my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time. – Don Roff
- Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. – Don Roff
- I don’t use big words to show off because it’s ostentatious. – Don Roff
- 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
- 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
- Yeah, episodic doesn’t work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it’s just narrative shit. – Don Roff
- 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
- You can be a writer who doesn’t read everyday. But you’re not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work. – Don Roff
- You can be a writer who doesn’t read everyday. But you’re not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work. – Don Roff
- 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
- Regarding the creative: never assume you’re the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you’re masterful. – Don Roff
- Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either. – Don Roff
- Always, there are some goodness in bad and something bad in goodness. It is the balance of life. – Pradeepa Pandiyan