Conventions Quote by Steve Krug

“Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.”

— Aldous Huxley

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 want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You…

— Lev Grossman

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

— Jane Rule

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

— James Frey

“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

“There are no rules, and those are the rules.”

— Cantus

“What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.”

— Patti Digh

“Rules are set, mostly does not change.”

— Dr. Poison King

“It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being unguarded...”

— Alain de Botton

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

— Stewart Brand

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

— Rosamond Lehmann