Genre Quotes - Page 27

• I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.

  Phil Collins

  Writing, Genres Of Music, Should

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

  Adam Hochschild

  Book, Writing, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really broad way. I read genre writers and I read literary fiction and I read books by dead people.

  Emily Barton

  Book, People, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people want to use words that come from genres to describe how this book functions because those words are accurate.

  Emily Barton

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.

  Emily Barton

  Crazy, Writing, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, "Oh, there's literary fiction, and beneath that, there's these other things." He's actually saying that they're all of equal merit, and in many cases, that work in the genres, or work that draws from the genres is more entertaining for readers, since it is our job to entertain people.

  Emily Barton

  Jobs, Thinking, Opening Up

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because I am known in the horror genre now, I try and do at least one horror movie a year for my fans, my fans have been so good to me.

  Robert Englund

  Horror Genre, Years, Trying

  Source: graveconcernsezine.com

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• I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.

  Robert Englund

  Ideas

  Source: graveconcernsezine.com

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• Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres.

  Robert Englund

  Sometimes

  Source: graveconcernsezine.com

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• I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money.

  Robert Englund

  Needs, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had this whole issue of doing a crime film in the 2010s. The genre's been mined very, very heavily. Post-Scorsese, post-Tarantino, post-Guy Ritchie, what do you do? I wasn't attracted to pulp so much as all of a sudden I had a pulp problem. I had to find a way to make this interesting, because there's a lot of crime films that come out on VOD every week, and a number of these star Nicolas Cage.

  Paul Schrader

  Stars, Numbers, Issues

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The horror genre is fun but I'm not sure it is quite right for me.

  Andre Holland

  Fun, Genre Is, Horror Genre

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide.

  Matthew Healy

  Advice

  Source: www.scenewave.com

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• I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend the genre instead of saying, 'Horror is a bit passe so this is Dark Fantasy,' and that' s playing someone else's game. So that's why I say I'm a fantasy writer and to hell with 'It doesn't read like what I think of as a fantasy'. In that case what you think of as a fantasy is not a fantasy. Or there is more to it than you think.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dark, Thinking, Games

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• I think music isn't just a genre or sound. If it sounds good and makes you feel good it's a beautiful thing.

  DJ Khaled

  Beautiful, Thinking, Feel Good

  Source: elitedaily.com

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• I'm a huge fan of television, and it's a really good time to be a fan of television, because there's so much good stuff out there. In every genre, really.

  Jon Hamm

  Fans, Television, Stuff

  "‘Mad Men’ star Jon Hamm looks back: ‘It was a long, strange trip’". Interview With Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 31, 2015.

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• I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.

  Ryan Tedder

  Writing, People, Albums

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Being gone for so long and coming back into the game, I'm the type of person to reinvent myself pretty often and I can adapt to pretty much whatever genre is popping at the moment.

  Tony Sunshine

  Genre Is, Games, Long

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I'm just different. There are a handful of different types of genre of music that I would love to just jump into and people don't realize that I'm really good at those things. They just know me as Tony Sunshine, the guy that sang the hooks for Terror Squad.

  Tony Sunshine

  Sunshine, Squad, People

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.

  Erykah Badu

  Art, Boards, Approach

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• What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Art, Want, Human Condition

  Source: www.ign.com

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• As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Drama, Book, Writing

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Book, Years, Lasts

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

  Kathy Bates

  Fans, Horror, Very Good

  Source: guff.com

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• The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs, you have to choose your genre.

  Robert Hass

  Writing, Creative, Facts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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