Quotes About Genre

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

I'll always be reading a good book. I don't have, like, specific genre tastes or anything or things that I kind of get hooked on, reading genre books or anything like that. It's just really anything anyone kind of recommends or is going around or I hear is good.

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.

I've never been into monster movies, not my cup of tea.

That's why gospel will never be pop music - it's not something that'd be everyone's cup of tea.

The traditional American war movie treats war as episodic and unusual, but here the voice-overs by Train elevate such violence and destruction to permanent metaphysical status. This is another reason why the narrative framework of the genre is invoked only to be refused.

It was assumed that genre films could not have any artistic merit, because they were not original works and because they were not authored works. These standards of evaluation are based upon a romantic theory of art that places the highest value on the concepts of originality, person creativity, and the idea of the individual artist as genius.

Today, of course, popular culture is on a culinary binge; and so much personal writing is now devoted to gazing back upon the kitchen and the table that we've had to invent a new literary genre, the food memoir, to contain all of it.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

Bad prose is the bugbear of genre fiction.

Like many other outstanding examples of the genre, Ingres's portrait teaches us that appearance can be a bearer of authentic meaning.

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

The earliest biography of Cranmer, probably conceived within a few hours of his death, began the villain narrative: Bishop Cranmer's Recantacyons by Cardinal Pole's Archdeacon of Canterbury and diocesan official Nicholas Harpsfield. 1 Written in Latin for an international audience, it effectively invents a new genre, anti-martyrology:

McKee's a genius. And hillarious. You'll like him, too, Charles. He's all for originality, just like you. He says that we have to realize that we all write in a genre and we must find our originality within that genre. As it turns out, there hasn't been a new genre since Fellini invented the mockumentary. My genre's thriller, what's yours?

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

Genre is about retail," Lee said. "Bookstores want to know what shelf to put the book on. But there are really only two types of books. There is the one that makes you miss your stop on the subway. And there is the one that doesn't.

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.