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I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.