Conflict Quote by Fredric Brown

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there…

— Neil Gaiman

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

— W. Somerset Maugham

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a…

— Len Wein

The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That…

— Neil Gaiman

To write a good story there are four things that every author needs: 1. A beginning 2. A middle 3. An ending 4. And…

— Anonymous

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

— O. Henry

I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But…

— Quentin Tarantino

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

— Ford Madox Ford

I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all…

— Ken Liu

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on…

— J. Michael Straczynski

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have…

— Dan Jenkins