College Quote by John D'Agata

Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization…

— Vijay Seshadri

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.

— Hisham Matar

I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and…

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The…

— Sarah Manguso

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

When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

— Paul Rudd

I don't consider genre while writing.

— Karin Tidbeck

At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.

— Philippa Gregory

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.

— Kathleen Rooney