Ethics Quote by Kathleen Rooney

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

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

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

— Junot Diaz

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

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

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms…

— Emily Susan Rapp

I don't consider genre while writing.

— Karin Tidbeck

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

“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

Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end…

— Achy Obejas

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

— Ellen Hopkins