Quotes About Genre

#1. Read widely (in and outside of your own genre), keep a notebook with you at all times. Do something that scares you every now and then. Try to locate your own frequency, knowing that one year your voice is on AM 532 and the next it's on FM 92.8.

Matthea Harvey

#2. Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.

Brandon Lee

#3. I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.

M.K. Hobson

#4. In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn't matter if you're filthy. In theory anyway.

Hal Duncan

#5. I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.

Matthea Harvey

#6. I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted with thriller and fantasy and even science fiction. I wanted the coming-of-age story and the love story to be about "outsiderdom" - one of the themes I am most interested in.

Porochista Khakpour

#7. I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage. I'm happy to be in that category.

Andrew Bird

#8. After I tasted success with erotic thrillers, a time came when I was being offered only films belonging to that genre. The industry loves repeating a success formula, and the audience had formed a certain image of mine in their minds.

Emraan Hashmi

#9. I like that I'm not typical. I like that I'm called 'no-genre hip-hop.'

Lizzo

#10. Even as a child, when kids my age would watch cartoons, I preferred watching horror flicks. I had watched some Hollywood horror flicks and even films made by the Ramsay brothers by the time I was six! I have always been biased towards that genre.

Emraan Hashmi

#11. If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.

Andy Eddy

#12. All I look for is good quality stuff. Whatever I read, if I like it, then I want to do it. It's as simple as that. I don't have a master plan of, "I should do this genre, and then this."

Karen Gillan

#13. '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

#14. I don't exist to build a genre. I exist to build the Kingdom.

LeCrae

#15. What we did with 'Tai Chi Zero' and 'Tai Chi Hero' was break down the martial-arts genre and make it younger, hipper, and kind of cooler for the younger kids.

Daniel Wu

#16. No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

Skrillex

#17. Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

Theo Hutchcraft

#18. There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

Billy Gibbons

#19. I discovered the fun of genre is ... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a ... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Matt Reeves

#20. I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.

Jen Selinsky

#21. Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

Mara Brock Akil

#22. To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

Miguel

#23. We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and people are watching what you do.

Eric Church

#24. There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

Matt Haig

#25. If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.

Wes Craven

#26. He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

Solange Knowles

#27. The 'fairy-story' is really an adult genre, and one for which a starving audience exists.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#28. how to think in the right genre?" "We already do it, every day. We tell ourselves what kind of story we're in, and we're often wrong, because life is mostly every genre, sometimes at once.

Michael R. Underwood

#29. Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians.

John Darnielle

#30. Andrew Vachss, the best noir-ey writer in the history of the genre, called cats the lap dancers of the animal world. Give them attention, they're there. Stop, they're outta there.

MaryJanice Davidson

#31. I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.

Ji-Hae Park

#32. Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description.

Charles Stross

#33. I do genre films because I like them or because I need the money. I make a star's salary when I do horror because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

Robert Englund

#34. I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller.

Satoru Iwata

#35. What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

Adam Arkin

#36. Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

Sarah Pinborough

#37. There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

Gore Verbinski

#38. I was crazy about the song "Doot Doot," so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic.

Margaret Cho

#39. For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

Nancy Kress

#40. What are books? They become our best friends, they enrich our lives, they allow us to escape, if only for a time, into another world, whatever the genre...

Colette Kebell

#41. When you think of dog movies, that genre, Old Yeller is sort of the benchmark and you hope that you can raise your game up to that.

Jennifer Aniston

#42. I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

Matthew William Goode

#43. I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

James Wan

#44. In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so that you had serious fiction and genre fiction.

Ruth Glick

#45. 'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

Anna Torv

#46. I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

David Ayer

#47. 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

#48. They [comic books] are not a genre, they are not something to get hot and cold from one year to the next, they're the exact same thing as books and plays: they are a source of great stories and colorful characters.

Michael Uslan

#49. I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.

Peter Weller

#50. They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

Idina Menzel

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

Ruskin Bond

#52. I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together.

Jeri Ryan

#53. I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.

Teddy Thompson

#54. Horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. It is a progressive form of fiction, one that evolves to meet the fears and anxieties of its times.

Douglas E. Winter

#55. There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.

Quentin Tarantino

#56. I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.

J. August Richards

#57. Y.A. wasn't really a specific genre when I was fifteen, but if it was, I would probably have shunned it; I was a huge snob.

Kathe Koja

#58. I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.

Thighpaulsandra

#59. An individual gospel might have been designed as the gospel for a particular community, but when it was included in a collection with other writings of the same genre, the individual writings were viewed as complementary one to another, each presenting a distinctive aspect of the ministry of Jesus.

F.F. Bruce

#60. I've always loved the hopeful nature of the romance genre. We can go to terrible places, dark places with our hero and heroine, explore wounds painful and old, because we know that there is hope even in the darkness.
(Interview with Read-A-Romance Month, 2013)

Nalini Singh

#61. There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would it be like if I were a werewolf?'

Glen Duncan

#62. It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.

Neil Cross

#63. I would agree 'Paul' is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

Nick Frost

#64. The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened to me.

Sara Levine

#65. Probably the best explanation for my success and other Internet writers, is that we're tapping a genre or a niche out there that needs to be filled and isn't.

Tucker Max

#66. The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

Adam Christopher

#67. I love superheroes and I love weird horror films ... I could definitely feel that there was a lack of movies like The Martian being made: smart genre movies that can appeal to adults.

Drew Goddard

#68. We insist that this stuff we call science fiction is not SCI-FI. For some in the ghetto of Genre this is axiomatic, a secret truth known only to the genre kids, that there is proper science fiction and then there's that SCI-FI shit.

Hal Duncan

#69. I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

Floyd Skloot

#70. I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can find a comic way through if it's a comedy or a suspenseful way through it if it's a drama.

Jay Roach

#71. I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

China Mieville

#72. 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

#73. We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely another literary genre: the past is autobiographical fiction pretending to be a parliamentary report.

Julian Barnes

#74. The first Amy Silver book was commissioned, and they were not books that came completely from me. They weren't necessarily the sort of books I read, and although I enjoyed doing them very much, and they were great training, I never felt completely comfortable in that genre.

Paula Hawkins

#75. It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

Andrew Scott

#76. I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.

Danielle Panabaker

#77. Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.

Kiefer Sutherland

#78. The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what's going on in contemporary fiction - not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.

Lev Grossman

#79. Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

Harmony Korine

#80. The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.

Bridget Regan

#81. The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.

John Landis

#82. When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.

Paul Auster

#83. 'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.

Junot Diaz

#84. I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project.

Rhianna Pratchett

#85. The business of hip hop is probably the most tangible example of the genre's dramatic maturation.

Carlos Wallace

#86. If you can't see the joy and wonder to be found in genre fiction, that's your problem, not mine.

William Meikle

#87. When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now
where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.

Doris Lessing

#88. I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew up on that stuff. I would just grow up watching a lot of horror movies, a lot of slasher movies and then zombie movies.

Jonathan Levine

#89. There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.

Peter Thiel

#90. As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

Michael Haneke

#91. We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.

Stephen Jay Gould

#92. I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.

Hedi Slimane

#93. Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Jo Nesbo

#94. 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.

Joan Jett

#95. I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.

Yukimi Nagano

#96. I don't really have a preferred genre. It's more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it.

Marco Beltrami

#97. The dichotomy is delicious. Inside the fantasy genre, I try to present women who need to solve real problems like having no voice in community, or no right to work; no access to capital to start a business. No reinforcement for talent.

Stella Atrium

#98. As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

Brian Setzer

#99. I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

Jean M. Auel

#100. Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

Ted Rall