Degrees Quote by Alan Furst

I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

— Dan Brown

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

— China Mieville

I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres…

— Elizabeth Hand

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

— Tanith Lee

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

— Tanith Lee

Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.

— Rumaan Alam

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

— Eric Brown

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

— Anne Lamott

I don't consider genre while writing.

— Karin Tidbeck

I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.

— Hisham Matar

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

— Jonathan Lethem