Genre Quotes · Page 16

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

— Emilie de Ravin

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

— Billy Corgan

I still have a YA-genre-series type of a book in me that I really want to tell.

— Janet Mock

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

— Brian K. Vaughan

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

— Patrick Stump

I don't want to limit myself to one genre and want to broaden it, more so in my 30s and 40s.

— Lee Min-ho

For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be…

— Lauryn Hill

'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.

— Oscar Isaac

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody…

— Marilyn Hacker

If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres,…

— Yukio Mishima

I'm always so pleased when I can get a song or be given a song that really speaks to me and I…

— Josh Groban

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you…

— Van Morrison

I am a voracious reader myself. I don't stick to one genre. My only criteria is that it's a good story. I…

— Karin Slaughter

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the…

— Laura Lippman

I wouldn't necessarily consider myself the typical sci-fi genre fan. I do have a lot of sci-fi shows that I enjoy, but…

— Amanda Schull

For horror movies, it's great because I know exactly what I am doing and what should be done. But for a cop…

— Lauren Ashley Carter

I've been able to have broad kind of education and all sorts of different music and a lot of kind of films…

— Steven Price

Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The…

— David Gemmell

There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for…

— Matthew Hussey

One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out.…

— Adrian Hodges

It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club…

— Robert Glasper

When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe,…

— Rachel Nichols

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper…

— Michael Buble

My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in.…

— Vera Nazarian

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are…

— Jon Weisman

I really don't think I have a genre, honestly, 'cause I make such different music even though it is rap.

— Denzel Curry

I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional.

— Sharon Van Etten

ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.

— Kevin J. Anderson

The first three issues of 'Cemetery Dance' were mainly horror, but now it's really a cross-genre magazine. It's all just snowballed.

— Richard Chizmar

To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels.

— Michael Gungor

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I…

— Jennifer Egan

Even in comedy genre, one can treat the story differently every time.

— Binnu Dhillon

I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing…

— Austin Carlile

I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, 'I want to do that,' and sacrifice the fact it might not…

— Colin Morgan

I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it's all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.

— Aaron Gillespie

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

— Matthew Vaughn

We want to keep developing original games in the genre we pioneered but also expand our audience by being present on all…

— David Cage

That's a genre that we haven't seen much of for a while. Those action-adventure-comedy, but yet intellectual films.

— Ashley Zukerman

A divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire.

— Idara Victor

Most stabilizing part of my career is that I have done all genres. I hate classification.

— Tabu