Law Quote by Patrick Rothfuss Download Open image “You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.” — Patrick Rothfuss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Law Needs Realizing Thumbs Writing
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content. — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will… — Anacharsis Copy Share Image
Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Prefiero tocar canciones que divierten a mis amigos que complacer a quienes me juzgan basándose solo en habladurías" - Kvothe” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Wilem snorted."That doesn't sound suspicious at all," he said. "And you wonder why people talk about you." "I don't wonder why they talk," I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image