Inspirational Quote by Will Shetterly

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

There is no rule on how to write.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

— Stephen Ambrose

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

— Shannon Hale

My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

— Elmore Leonard

There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

— Peter Guber

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

— O. Henry

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

— John Mortimer

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

— Kiran Desai