Careers Quote by Matt Nix

Yeah, I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules.

— Steven Knight

The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.

— Jeffery Keedy

It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from…

— Lev Grossman

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

I tend to be drawn to characters who are not rule followers, who behave in unexpected and unusual ways.

— Laura van den Berg

But rules cannot substitute for character.

— Alan Greenspan

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

— Quentin Tarantino

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I…

— Gong Li

I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

— Elaine de Kooning

I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot of things…

— Bruce Holland Rogers

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

— Marcus Aurelius

When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.

— Courtney A. Kemp