Genre Quotes

• 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

  Literary Genre, Speech, Definitions

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.17, A&C Black

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• By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Reading, Writing, Asking Questions

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• 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

  Character, Long, Empathy

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• Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Stars, War, Different

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• The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

  Andre Bazin

  Cinema, Western, Identical

  André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.140, Univ of California Press

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• In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Running, Drama, Television

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

  Rick Moody

  Literary Genre, Genre Is, Bookstores

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• Science fiction still is an idea genre.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Science, Ideas, Fiction

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• I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

  Thomas Jane

  Great Love, Love And Respect, Stills

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2011

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• I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Confused, Boundaries, Multiple

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• I love mixing up my genres.

  Rosanne Cash

  Mixing

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• What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

  Wyclef Jean

  Rap, Trying, Break

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• I never excluded any genre on my first record.

  Deana Carter

  Records, Firsts, Excluded

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

  Keith Carradine

  Genre Is, Familiar, Western

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• But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

  Bruce Willis

  Genre Is, Guy, Action

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• Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

  Meg Ryan

  Romantic, True Love, Mind

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

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• 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, Genre Is, Literary Genre

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

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• All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Ridiculous, Purity

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• Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Block, Book, Writing

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• Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

  Tanith Lee

  Casting, Vote, Categories

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• Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Ursula Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Doors, Stories, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Fiction, Done, Body

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• If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

  William H. Gass

  Would Be, Fiction, Feminine

  William H. Gass (2012). “World Within The Word”, p.74, Knopf

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• People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Movie, People, Watches

  "Director Matthew Vaughn talks Layer Cake and X-Men 3". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.

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• Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Labels, Helping, Audience

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