Books Quote by Lauren Lola

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

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

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

Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements…

— Kristin Hannah

“Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?”

— Colleen Hoover

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

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

There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres.

— Lisa Lutz

I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a…

— Marjorie Liu

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

— Dean Koontz

I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing…

— Emily Gould

I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as…

— Karin Tidbeck