Genre Quotes - page 2

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one. (Mark Haddon)
The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. View quote
Maurice Gibb
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, The 5th Wave, explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us. View quote
Rick Yancey
I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly. View quote
Robin McKinley
Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre. View quote
Sarah Pinborough
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director. View quote
Famke Janssen
I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can. View quote
Herbie Hancock
I am self-educated from genre books. View quote
Charlaine Harris
The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings. (Shawn Ashmore)
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest. View quote
Jennifer Egan
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers. View quote
John Connolly
As far as writing and directing, I'm very focused on the thriller genre. View quote
Jordan Peele
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. View quote
Ken Follett
I made the decision that I didn't want to spend my life in rooms and write about rooms, or else make books that are researched constructs. I think you do have to get out there and live it. Thriller and genre writers seem to understand this. View quote
Lawrence Osborne
One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock 'n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene. View quote
Joan Jett
It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre. View quote
Robert Duvall
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. View quote
Lynn Abbey
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. View quote
Andre Bazin
As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed. (John Maeda)
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd. View quote
Bill Condon
As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of. View quote
Alexandra Patsavas
No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films. View quote
Amanda Righetti
Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do. View quote
Amy Acker