Genre Quotes

• 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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• It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.

  Steve Buscemi

  Genre Is, Matter

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

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• 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

  Writing, Successful, Trying

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• 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

  Fantasy Novels, Stories, Literature

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• One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

  Paul Mazursky

  Directors, Want, Film

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• I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

  Carter Burwell

  Stars, War, Opportunity

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• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Baseball, Thinking, Genre Is

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

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• 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

  Horror Genre, Scary, Want

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• We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Movie, Scary, Trying

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• I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

  Thomas Perry

  Book, Reading, Trying

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

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• I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Years, Careers

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• If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

  George A. Romero

  Horror Genre, Film, Dies

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

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• 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

  Cutting, One Direction, Way

  Concat interview, www.concatenation.org. 1988.

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• The space genre is timeless.

  Dirk Benedict

  Genre Is, Space, Timeless

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• We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

  Bill Condon

  Whales, Crowds, Kind

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• I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

  Robert Englund

  Technology, Horror Genre, Example

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

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• Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Spiritual, Exercise, Literary Genre

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• I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

  Famke Janssen

  Jobs, Men, Two

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• The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

  Sara Paretsky

  Crime Novels, Favourite, Crime

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• I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

  Nora Roberts

  Variety

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• Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Years, Diversity, Today

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• I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

  Keith Carradine

  Thinking, Western

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• I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre

  Jason Marsden

  Thinking, Sitcom, Locked

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• I try not to discriminate against genres.

  Ryan Gosling

  Trying, Genres Of Music

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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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