Remember Quote by Alanis Morissette

I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.

— William Carlos Williams

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

— Tyler Joseph

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I never had a set of rules. Every situation is different.

— Red Auerbach

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

— Marcus Aurelius

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

— Kiran Desai

There is no rule on how to write.

— Ernest Hemingway

Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.

— Raymond Chandler

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

— Chuck Yeager

I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody…

— Danielle Steel

All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think…

— Jamaica Kincaid

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

— Kate Zambreno