Genre Quotes - Page 26

• I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

  Sara Paretsky

  Thinking, Hands, Interesting

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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, Genre Is, Lessons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

  Melissa Marr

  Writing, Appreciate, Age

  "Interview: Melissa Marr, author of 'Made for You'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 17, 2014.

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• The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?

  Joe Nichols

  Country, Rocks, Band

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• Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Men, Long, Biographies

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• James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre

  Michael Nesmith

  Poet, Americana

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• The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

  Julia Quinn

  Writing, Careers, Expectations

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• I'm convinced Mr. Reagan would never be elected- I don't think his views are held by a majority of the American people...it's the Republican party that's going to be committing suicide by nominating candidates of that genre.

  John Anderson

  Suicide, Party, Thinking

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• It's not like I think my art is inspirations from icons strung together. They're just sort of people who others talk about. I am definitely interested in the masters of different genres, they're talented and popular for a reason.

  Lana Del Rey

  Art, Inspiration, Thinking

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Getting to do different genres of movies means you're gonna have different types of situations. So I want to try and do every type of genre there is out there.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Mean, Trying, Different

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I'm not fixed in any genre. I love all kinds of films. The essential thing is; you have to have good material. If you have the filmmaker, and the material, and the script is good, you can start from there.

  Jason Statham

  Essentials, Scripts, Kind

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I was coming into it with a certain degree of outsider attitude, and I didn't have a long-term plan. But I think the way it's worked out, it's sort of warped into what I suppose you could say is my own genre. If people like my books, they have some idea of what the next one will be like.

  William Gibson

  Attitude, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.

  William Gibson

  Hbo, Wire, Television

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• My sound is constantly progressing and maturing. It's hard with all the songs that I have written over the years to compile them all into one album. It's almost impossible to categorize them into one genre.

  Asher Monroe

  Song, Years, Progress

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

  Jack White

  Cousin, Attitude, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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, Genre Is, Sound

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

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• I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read a memoir that isn't by a celebrity, we feel like we're about to go on a journey and we don't know where the journey will lead. But when we read a memoir by a celebrity we feel like we already know the journey and we just want to travel it.

  Hilary Liftin

  Book, Journey, Thinking

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

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• 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

  Son, Listening, Rebellion

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative... And for me, when I'm making music, it's all in my head, and all those influences in my head. So if something comes to me that's a reference from a different genre then people are used to hearing from me, I'm not afraid to go there with it.

  John Legend

  People, Hip Hop, Soul

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

  John Legend

  Wise, Inspire, Musician

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

  Robert Pinsky

  Notorious, Autobiography, Falsehood

  "How My Mind Writes Poems" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.

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• After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Superhero, Leader

  "Ex Machina : An Interview With Brian K. Vaughan". Interview with Bryan Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

  Simone Elkeles

  Book, Writing, Romance

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• I had never really done something that was more of a horror film, and its funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre. The script had images in it that I liked.

  Tim Burton

  Done, Scripts, Kind

  Tim Burton (2008). “Burton on Burton”, p.255, Faber & Faber

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