Ifs Quote by Kate Zambreno

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

— Chuck Yeager

I always say you could publish rules in a newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline.

— Richard Dennis

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

— James J. Kilpatrick

People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.

— Nishan Panwar

“Rules only matter if everyone understands them, agrees to them, and can be trusted not to break them. Bearing these irrefutable facts in mind,…

— Seanan McGuire

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

— Kiran Desai

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that…

— Chantelle Brown-Young

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

— Ilsa J. Bick

There's only rules if you place rules on yourself.

— Maria Brink

“I didn't write the rules, why should i follow them?”

— W. Eugene Smth