Books Quote by Denise Mina

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

— Tod Goldberg

You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking…

— Terry Brooks

It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from…

— Lev Grossman

I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot of things…

— Bruce Holland Rogers

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

— Marcus Aurelius

Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions…

— Craig Lancaster

One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out…

— Kathy Reichs

Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.

— Jack Foster

I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is the exact…

— A.M. Homes

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

— Kate Zambreno

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking…

— Matt Nix

“Rules are usually in place because they help the people who made them, more than the people who have to follow them. Same goes…

— S.E. Jakes