Around Quote by Matt Haig

As far as this categorization of books, the way I see it is there are really a hundred-odd categories of books plus one, and…

— Markus Zusak

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 tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to…

— Joanne Harris

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

— Karen Russell

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

— Lee Klein

The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's…

— Jonathan Stroud

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

— Nick Hornby

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

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

— Rumaan Alam

It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are…

— Steve Aylett

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

...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then…

— Stephen King