Break Quote by Lev Grossman

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

— Jane Rule

“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”

— Steve Krug

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation…

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage…

— Steven Pinker

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

— James Frey

All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.

— Jeremy Bulloch

I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

— Rene Auberjonois

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

— Hedy Lamarr

When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad.…

— Mary Harron

A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling the best…

— Georg Baselitz

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the…

— Don Hewitt

I think my favourite thing about doing conventions is the parents taking their kids to see their favourite drag idols, because open-minded, progressive parents…

— Jinkx Monsoon