Literary Genres Quotes

#1. Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Aberjhani

#2. On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

J.K. Rowling

#3. People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.

Gary Saul Morson

#4. I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres.

Isabel Allende

#5. I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?

Kobe Bryant

#6. One of our fundamental human needs is finding our partner that we hope we will stay with for the rest of our lives. You often find the same search in other genres. The mystery novel has a romance subplot. Literary novels often focus on that relationship but do not often end well.

Lauren Willig

#7. 'House' was such a special part of my life.

Jennifer Morrison

#8. I write across several genres. I'm a slut for words. I can't keep it in my literary pants.

Fierce Dolan

#9. Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Dean Koontz

#10. From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.

James Surowiecki

#11. Oh, it's a terrible, cruel thing - first you're young, and that takes up such a long time you think it's forever, then suddenly you're not young, and you never get used to it - and, oh dear, there's just the one way out.

Joyce Carol Oates

#12. I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.

Adam Christopher

#13. I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#14. Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.

Robin S. Sharma

#15. Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.

China Mieville