Genre Quotes
631 Genre quotes by 516 unique authors
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I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make…
— Sean William Scott
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Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing…
— Thomas Frank
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There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
— Miranda Lambert
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I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.
— Thomas Perry
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I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
— Sue Grafton
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On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it…
— Avi Arad
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Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is…
— David Gemmell
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Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from…
— Félix J. Palma
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Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it…
— Michael Moorcock
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I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for…
— Quentin Tarantino
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Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
— Steven Van Zandt
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Overwatch doesn't just bring together the legal and espionage genres. It merges family problems with professional ones, swirls in a major helping of murder and…
— Brad Meltzer
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I have never followed what people say it is 'fashionable'. I think that a woman must wear what fits her. That is why I created…
— Carmen Miranda
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As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.
— Stephen King
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When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of…
— Bella Thorne
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Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition…
— Tosca Lee
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For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if…
— James Patrick Kelly
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Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has it all: great…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons…
— Adrian Tchaikovsky
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This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.
— Christopher Rice
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The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.
— Stanley Ellin
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I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted…
— Mark Sheppard
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I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.
— Michael Shannon
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I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.
— Natalie Portman
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