Change Quote by Laura Lippman

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

I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

I love crime fiction, and I'm proud to be part of it, but I'm not without criticism for my own genre.

— Laura Lippman

I don't consider genre while writing.

— Karin Tidbeck

I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres…

— Elizabeth Hand

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

— Stanley Ellin

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

— Junot Diaz

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

— Dan Brown

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

— John Connolly

If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.

— Colson Whitehead

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

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

— Jo Nesbo