Definitions Quote by John D'Agata

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough.

— Goapele

Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing,…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit…

— Taylor Swift

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

— Junot Diaz

Genres are just names.

— Jimmy Iovine

I don't have a problem with many uses of the word genre, just certain ones. I have the most trouble when these labels are…

— Michael Chabon

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

— Walter Jon Williams

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and…

— Christopher Nolan

My goal is to try to avoid a genre.

— Mat Kearney

My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe…

— Neil Gaiman

“Genre, then, as a means of study is a way we can examine and discuss the elements and functions of a type of practice.…

— David Bate