Books Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

— Thomas Ligotti

Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization…

— Vijay Seshadri

Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.

— Ruskin Bond

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

— Lisa Lutz

“Good authors worry about genres great authors don't.”

— Frank Gaspar

I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is to know…

— Charles Bukowski

“Genres are what holds each story together and help it along, but in no way should it ever be treated as a boundary, especially…

— Lauren Lola

I don't consider genre while writing.

— Karin Tidbeck

“Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each…

— Uma Nnenna