Determination Quote by Joe R. Lansdale

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

— Emma Donoghue

Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

— Kevin Sampsell

Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

— Michael Dirda

I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

— China Mieville

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

— Susan Wiggs

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

— V. S. Naipaul

There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres.

— Lisa Lutz

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

— Eric Brown

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous