Genre Quote by Rick Moody Download Open image “Literature precedes genre.” — Rick Moody ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Genre Literature Precedes
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it. The value judgement concealed in distinguishing one novel as literature and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development. — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“Words are the oldest information storage and retrieval system ever devised. Words are probably older than the cave paintings in France, words have been… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff -… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character. — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
I've just always loved really good projects. The things that draw me into a new project have very little to do with genre and… — Jewel Staite Copy Share Image
As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I knew what kind of genre 'Casa de mi Padre' was going for. But my character, specifically, I think is very real. — Genesis Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork. — William F. Nolan Copy Share Image
I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating,… — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
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