Found Quote by John Mortimer

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

— Shannon Hale

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

— Rita Dove

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer…

— Raymond Chandler

Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

— Isaac Asimov

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

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

— Natalie Goldberg

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

— Patrick Rothfuss

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

— Suzanne Vega

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any…

— Tom Robbins

There is no rule on how to write.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing bores me so.

— Oscar Wilde

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.

— Will Shetterly