Genre Quote by Hisham Matar

I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated.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

Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.

— Rumaan Alam

I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.

— Ken Liu

I don't consider genre while writing.

— Karin Tidbeck

Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are…

— Stephen Marche

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by…

— John Clute

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

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may…

— Margaret Atwood

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

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

— Julianna Baggott

I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

Genres are just names.

— Jimmy Iovine