#rules

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. ↗

— Frank Crane

#habits #keep #rules #safer #than

I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules. ↗

— Kieran Culkin

#cider #did #different #feel #house

It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#actually #better #countries #generally #kind

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#best #honestly #i #matter #needs

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#character #comedy #diversified #even #great

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#carrying #deny #departed #i #justice

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#cardinal #checked #copy #editing #error

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power. ↗

— Rob Walton

#business #control #controls #get #going

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end. ↗

— Len Wein

#beginning #different #dozen #end #makes

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#colors #granite #i #lighter #like