"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too."

Klaus Schulze, German Composer

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"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."

Jacques Derrida, French Philosopher

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"There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is."

Guy Clark, American Musician

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

Kieran Culkin, American Actor

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"I like rules that are broken."

Shelby Lynne, American Musician

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"Error of omission begets new rules."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever."

Daniel Greenberg, American Educator

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"Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments."

Timothy Radcliffe, English Clergyman

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"I do not attachany exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life isthere to be lived rather than to be written about. My aimis to search out the manifold experience that it offers,wringing from each moment what of emotion it presents.I look upon my writing as a graceful accomplishmentwhich does not absorb but rather adds pleasure toexistence. And as for posterity-damn posterity."

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"It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it."

Choice, Pleasure, Pain, Illusion

"I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do."

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"A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute."

Humor, Saying, Wisdom, Irony

"Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour."

Hope, Faith, Poet, Labour

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

Thought, Day, Pity

"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"

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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."

"I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too."

"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."

"There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is."

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

"I like rules that are broken."

"Error of omission begets new rules."

"I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever."

"Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments."

Explore more quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

"I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do."

"A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute."

"Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour."

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"

"The crown of literature is poetry."

"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."