Genre Quotes

“I am the genre.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Genre? What's that?”

— June Winton

I love the spy genre.

— Chris Pine

The real genres: good and bad.

— Franz Grillparzer

I want to explore all genres.

— Neha Dhupia

I am trying every genre.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I enjoy every kind of genre.

— Pulkit Samrat

I like genre films.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Romantic films are not a genre I would choose.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I hate genres. I think they're just marketing labels.

— Rhiannon Giddens

I always say, there's no music genre better than another.

— Rosalia

I'm going to keep myself open in terms of genres.

— Gareth Evans

I make sure I don't repeat my genre, don't repeat a role for sure.

— Taapsee Pannu

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

— Will Gluck

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

— Robert Pinsky

I bring a newness to the genre... a new reggae awakening.

— Koffee

Horror films and genre films are interesting, because I always look for a deeper meaning or a deeper theme in the film.

— Katee Sackhoff

I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.

— Tom Peters

Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.

— Dwayne Johnson

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful…

— Simone Elkeles

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die...

— Margaret Drabble

I do love genres, but I love finding new ways into the genre, or making that world fresh again.

— John Hillcoat

I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.

— J. August Richards

Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.

— Esperanza Spalding

Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would…

— Amy Acker

Before 'Final Fantasy VII,' I would have told you that I had zero interest in RPGs with turn-based combat. But that game…

— Tim Schafer

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded…

— Franz Grillparzer

Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion…

— Anonymous

I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Eventually, I came to believe, stupidly, that I had exhausted that story's "original" form with its single use. I went on to…

— Norman Lock

For me, there's a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a…

— Jon Watts

I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer…

— Samuel R. Delany

“An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing…

— Julio Cortázar

There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route…

— John Gimlette

It's really interesting - I wanted to become an actress when I was young because I wanted to do romantic comedy. And…

— Julie Benz

Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The…

— Achy Obejas

I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You…

— Nicole Holofcener

Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there…

— Kristin Hannah

I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and…

— Kyle MacLachlan

Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special…

— Patrick Rothfuss