Genre Quotes

631 Genre quotes by 516 unique authors

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking… — P.D. James
Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy?… — Laurell K. Hamilton
What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use… — Jacques Audiard
Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a… — Danny Boyle
Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence.… — Danny Boyle
I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a… — Pope Francis
As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are… — Brian Setzer
I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the… — Alex O'Loughlin
When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the… — Iggy Pop
I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre. — Joyce DiDonato
The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of… — Damon Albarn
I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. It… — Linda Ronstadt
... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he… — Roger McGuinn
I came late to the genre of folk music. — Tom Morello
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither… — Lynn Abbey
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. — Lynn Abbey
Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject. — Isabel Bishop
Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant drawing… — Unknown Author
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books… — Jayne Ann Krentz
Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to… — Michael Swanwick
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a… — Robert Olen Butler
I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of… — K D Lang
Artists in not only country but other genres usually make four or five albums, then they change producers to keep their sound moving forward. — Juice Newton
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism. — David G. Hartwell

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