Genre Quotes

631 Genre quotes by 516 unique authors

I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read… — Khaled Hosseini
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know,… — Alan Moore
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. — Carlos Fuentes
I have the death sentence in seven genres. — Jasper Fforde
Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is… — Alan Moore
Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a… — Marian Keyes
This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me… — Toni Morrison
Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre. — Billy Corgan
Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the Stephen King of… — Meg Cabot
I am self-educated from genre books. — Charlaine Harris
Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader… — Lois Duncan
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the… — Rosemary Clement-Moore
RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply… — Mark Morford
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... — Margaret Drabble
Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad.… — R A Salvatore
Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take… — Jasper Fforde
At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely… — Hayao Miyazaki
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous. — Jasper Fforde
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape. — China Mieville
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles… — Neil Gaiman
When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing… — Jim Butcher
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction… — Glen Duncan
All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly… — Neil Gaiman
Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one… — Jayne Ann Krentz
Manga is a very entertaining cultural form, made of many totally different genres. Don’t restrict yourself with a single style of manga. I would be… — Hiromu Arakawa

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