Honestly Quote by Neil Gaiman

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

“If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to…

— Neil Gaiman

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

— O. Henry

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

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

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish…

— Robert B. Parker

This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth…

— Lynn Coady

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is…

— Etgar Keret

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

— Lena Waithe

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“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

I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule…

— O. Henry