Artistic Quote by Lee Klein

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

I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated.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 think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier for a…

— Matt Haig

Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.

— Rumaan Alam

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

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 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

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books…

— Karen Russell

I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start…

— Austin Carlile

A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just…

— King Krule

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

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