Books Quote by Carlos Fuentes Download Open image “Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.” — Carlos Fuentes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Genre Writing
At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit… — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Because it’s a fucking disaster to be creative when you know you’re not Mozart or Keats. Dammit, I got tired of scratching around in… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“You will have given another moment to the moment you are living and to the moments you are going to live; you have perverted… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
