{"author":"Don Roff","author_id":"Don+Roff","total_quotes":43,"quotes":[{"text":"Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["admire","audience","character","character-flaw","connect","empathy","inspirational","strength","weakness","writing","writing-advice","writing"],"id":5734,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["funny","humorous","ironic","ostentatious","pretentious","show-off","witty"],"id":53162,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"A migraine is the cockblock of writing.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["blocked","cockblock","migraine","pain","writing"],"id":53489,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"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.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["advice","advice","bad","facebook","good","inspirational","reading","think","twitter","twitter","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-life","writing-process","zen"],"id":66686,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"Mothman flew away from town, like a giant bat, and then disappeared from sight behind a thicket of skeletal autumn trees.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["autumn","bat","mothman","trees"],"id":89415,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"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.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["kicking-ass","money","self-doubt","writing"],"id":119639,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"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.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["battle","bullets","chaos","combat","confusion","cool","fire","first-draft","humor","military","scene","writing"],"id":138341,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"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.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["conflict","event","humor","inspiration","kat","outline","petting","purring","scene","story","storytelling","tension","writing","writing-advice","writing-process"],"id":146460,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["creativity","inspiration","intelligence","life","nonviolence","problem","problem-solving","problems","quotes","about-life","to-live-by","violence","writing"],"id":152228,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["daily","insanity","mental-illness","meticulous","slow","success","writing"],"id":155550,"author_id":"Don+Roff"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}