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Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. -- Rick Moody
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. -- Tanith Lee
But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys. -- Bruce Willis
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. -- Jose Saramago
Genre is a minimum security prison, -- David Shields
Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been. -- Amos Lee
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. -- Walter Jon Williams
Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach. -- Juliana Spahr
Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre. -- Junot Diaz
Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer. -- Jason Mraz
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on. -- Neil Gaiman
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. -- Amy Acker
I never excluded any genre on my first record. -- Deana Carter
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. -- Ken Follett
I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre. -- Thomas Perry
A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development. -- Thomas M. Disch
I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. -- Robyn Davidson
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. -- Dean Koontz
I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre. -- Thomas Jane
People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is. -- Matthew Vaughn
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination. -- Leslie Banks
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. -- Anne Lamott
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. -- Herbie Hancock
I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. -- Pope Francis
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
I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing. -- Ed Sheeran
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. -- Robert Duvall
The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want. -- Brion James
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. -- Lynn Abbey
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. -- Guillermo del Toro
I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges. -- Amy Adams
Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write -- Laurell K. Hamilton
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it! -- George A. Romero
A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre. -- J. Michael Straczynski
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist. -- Harold Bloom
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. -- Dean Koontz
When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial. -- Iggy Pop
I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress. -- Illeana Douglas
I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it. -- Daniel Dae Kim
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off. -- Larry Niven
'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth. -- Eric Balfour
I'm not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers or anything, but they need to stop being so close-minded because that will just cause the genre to fail. Look at pop. Pop doesn't discriminate against people. Look at Lady Gaga, y'know what I mean? -- ASAP Rocky
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. -- Jennifer Egan
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things. -- Gary Gygax
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto. -- Jess Walter
Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor. -- Keanu Reeves
It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it. -- Ethan Hawke
It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries anymore; you can take a trance idea and put it into a trap record - it's not that uncommon. -- Steve Aoki
Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge. -- Joe Dante
When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre. -- Rachel Nichols
I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist. -- Taylor Swift
The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away? -- Rick Yancey
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged. -- William Gibson
My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything. -- A. R. Rahman
There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock n' roll in soul, there's rock n' roll in country. When you see people dress, and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that's rock n' roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star, you know? -- John Varvatos
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. -- Patrick Rothfuss
The space genre is timeless. -- Dirk Benedict
Vampires are a genre now. -- Joseph Morgan
I am self-educated from genre books. -- Charlaine Harris
I don't consider genre while writing. -- Karin Tidbeck
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. -- Robert Pinsky
Animation is a technique, not a genre. -- Gore Verbinski
Science fiction still is an idea genre. -- Sheri S. Tepper
I love action films. It's my favorite genre. -- Til Schweiger
Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre. -- Billy Corgan
The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed. -- John Oates
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre. -- Margaret Atwood
The crime novel has always been my favourite genre. -- Sara Paretsky
Ive never really been into the sci-fi genre myself. -- Marie Avgeropoulos
I don't approach films purely in context of genre. -- Roger Deakins
Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre. -- Susan Wiggs
Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book. -- Brian Keene
Im a huge fan of the James Bond genre. -- Chris Diamantopoulos
Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
It doesn't matter to me what the genre is. -- Steve Buscemi
I don't like to label films with a genre. -- Tom Felton
I came late to the genre of folk music. -- Tom Morello
J-Lo finally married into her own music genre. Crappy music. -- Doug Benson
When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability. -- Jenny Hval
The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters. -- Shawn Ashmore
I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American. -- Keith Carradine
The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar. -- Keith Carradine
In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing. -- Leni Zumas
I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre. -- Drew Roy
I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre -- Jason Marsden
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird. -- Chester Bennington
Everything changes in every genre, whether it's pop, rock or country. --
The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me. -- Katie Aselton
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre. -- Vanna Bonta
Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. -- Chika Anadu
My favorite genre of movies growing up was the romantic comedy. -- Jennifer Finnigan
There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide. -- Matthew Healy
Comedy is king for me; it's the genre that everyone loves. -- Robert Greenblatt
Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre. -- Anna Torv
My focus is to not focus too much on one genre. -- Amanda Seyfried
I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly. -- Michael Shannon
The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days. -- Viggo Mortensen
Jim Rollins is the king of the weird science action genre. -- Jonathan Maberry
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. -- Carlos Fuentes
I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre. -- Joyce DiDonato
I like any good game. I don't care what the genre is. -- Tim Schafer
At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements. -- Masi Oka
I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. -- Walter Benjamin
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. -- Walter Benjamin
Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre. -- Harold Innis
I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel. -- Alan Furst
The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development. -- Eric Dane
A divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire. -- Idara Victor
It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre. -- Eli Roth
I'm a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements. -- Mena Suvari
Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching. -- Zoe Saldana
There is no real kind of specific genre of cost of movies. -- Joel Silver
I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. -- Martina McBride
There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book. -- Matt Haig
I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre. -- China Mieville
Women look really sexy doing action on-screen, and it is my favorite genre. -- Esha Gupta
I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. -- Quentin Tarantino

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