Genre Is Quotes

• The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

  Jose Saramago

  Space, Literary Genre, Sea

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

  Lynn Abbey

  Jumping, Editors, Ideas

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• Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.

  David Farland

  Book, Your Favorite, Moved

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• The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.

  Roger Corman

  Halloween, Laughing, Comedy

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• At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Challenges, Innovation, Fantasy Stories

  Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks (2010). “The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.21, Writer's Digest Books

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• Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Home, Action, Back Home

  "Dwayne Johnson On Set Interview FASTER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 1, 2010.

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• The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

  Mae Whitman

  Meaningful, Age, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

  James Berardinelli

  Mediocrity, Guarantees, Matter

  "Robin Hood: Men in Tights (United States, 1993)". Movie review, www.reelviews.net.

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• The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Literature, Demand, Becoming

  Stanislaw Lem (2012). “Microworlds”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; its a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. Its all right there in front of us.

  Phil Anselmo

  Two, Lessons, Limits

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  Candace Kita

  Fun, Book, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The actors are different, although I didn't set out to be different. My inspiration came from people like Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The genre is what it is. My inspiration was drawn from great movies like 48 Hours, Bad Boys and Rush Hour.

  Tracy Morgan

  Inspiration, Boys, People

  "Tracy Morgan ‘Cop Out’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. February 22, 2010.

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• There's always gonna be criticisms, no matter what movie you do, no matter what. You can't please everybody, and it doesn't matter what the genre is. There's always gonna be a positive to a negative comment.

  Sam Worthington

  Criticism, Negative, Matter

  Source: wwd.com

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• To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.

  Cate Marvin

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I do think that once a horror genre is commonly parodied in other movies it sort kills that genre or that specific take on that genre. Once it sort of becomes a joke in and of itself, so you have to push and find something new.

  Roy Lee

  Thinking, Horror Genre, Something New

  "Producer Roy Lee Talks THE RING, POLTERGEIST, and THE GRUDGE Reboots, A Darker Ending for Spike Lee’s OLDBOY Remake, and More". Interview on the set, collider.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

  Rick Moody

  Literary Genre, Bookstores, Problem

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• 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

  Teenage, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

  Keith Carradine

  Genre, Familiar, Western

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• The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Horse, Drama, Book

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. Ocober 6, 2003.

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• I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

  Hilary Liftin

  Thinking, Sound, Pretentious

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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• I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to be new and have some real artistic integrity.

  Josh Hartnett

  Integrity, Real, Long

  "Interview: Josh Hartnett Talks 30 Days Of Night". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 1, 2007.

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• When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the thing you're going to get the most out of. If you're trying to satirise a comedy, it's hard to do that - it doesn't really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I'm a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.

  Ben Stiller

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my books to give a whole spectrum of experiences to my readers. Not just fear or terror or revulsion, but excitement, laughter, pain, sorrow, desire, etc.

  Richard Laymon

  Laughter, Pain, Book

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• No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

  Amanda Righetti

  Running, First Love, Horror Genre

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• The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.

  John Lasseter

  Thinking, Shoes, Guy

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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