Anything Quote by John Clute

“Genres are what holds each story together and help it along, but in no way should it ever be treated as a boundary, especially…

— Lauren Lola

Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art…

— Charles Stross

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

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

— Anna Torv

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public…

— Jean M. Auel

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

— Matt Haig

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

— Sheri S. Tepper

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

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

— Amanda Schull

For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For…

— James Patrick Kelly

I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.

— James Ellroy