Genre Quote by Hisham Matar

I'm interested in genre in a way, I suppose because you have a framework of something and you can just twist it to explore…

— Lynne Ramsay

Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die,…

— Robert Burchfield

I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing…

— Emily Gould

I'm now much more excited about genre distinctions. What I still see breaking down are more the hierarchical arrangements of genres. That is, "There…

— Lev Grossman

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future,…

— Carl Sagan

Libraries are where it all begins.

— Rita Dove

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in…

— Audre Lorde

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

— Anthony Horowitz

“The librarian, a tiny blonde twenty-something in a Riot grrrl T-shirt, looked up from her desk and smiled. Don’t let anyone tell you that…

— Helen Callaghan

“Why a librarian?” he asked. “Princesses weren’t in high demand, so I opted for the next best thing.”

— Sidney Bristol

“The Burgess sisters arrive together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that…

— Erin Morgenstern

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

— Molly Harper