I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels…

“Think of this book as a new genre altogether—a when-to book.”

— Daniel H. Pink

I often wonder why we don't have an English word for 'genre.' People on arts programmes always have to use the word and invariably…

— Maureen Lipman

I didn't learn the word 'genre' until way, way late - I mean, like, in the '80s.

— Dianne Reeves

I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old.

— Trombone Shorty

I don't have a problem with many uses of the word genre, just certain ones. I have the most trouble when these labels are…

— Michael Chabon

I came up at a time in the late '60s, early '70s where music was without boundaries. You'd go into a music store, and…

— Dianne Reeves

I guess I didn't even know the word 'genre' until I did 'True Blood.' That's how naive I was, and I didn't realize that…

— Denis O'Hare

“She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked it or…

— Gillian Flynn

“It’s good.’ She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked…

— Gillian Flynn

I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most…

— Gillian Flynn

“Well, I’m warning you. I could be a bad book with a good jacket.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

— Alain de Botton

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or…

— Christopher Morley

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not…

— Jackie Collins

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are…

— Richard Llewellyn