Books Quote by John Steinbeck

There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course,…

— 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

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

— George Saintsbury

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

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

— Stephen Ambrose

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

“There are a couple of utterly important rules to writing anything, whether it's a novel, a short story or a collection of poetry. And…

— Nicholas Trandahl

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

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

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