Quotes About Genre

The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.

The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all.

I'm biased toward romantic comedies; they're probably my favorite genre.

Like most writers, I read deeply into the genre in which I write.

It's like I don't have any one genre, I guess. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get me into a rom-com, but who knows?

I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.

When I applied for grad school, I did not specify genre. I said I wanted an MFA in Creative Writing. I was so cute and stupid! The admissions committee at Pitt decided to put me in poetry.

I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.

I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.

My favorites are songs that I get an emotional charge from, whatever genre they're in.

It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.

My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.

If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in your genre. You don't want to plagiarize, but you want to learn from that author.

When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre.

I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, 'I want to do that,' and sacrifice the fact it might not be very good.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it's fun, and that's how I grow as an actor.

I always wanted to do action-adventure, and science fiction genres were always something that were of great interest to me.

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

I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.

Subconciously, the things you listen to and you believe in, those things are going to come out, you know what I mean? I think you take that and make it your sound; that's what I do when I'm putting together genres of music.

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.