Quotes About Genre

I think the big thing is that Stephen King is just a phenomenon, and when he came along, for the first time horror was suddenly considered a very commercial genre. It had always been around, of course, but now, the books had the word 'horror' actually printed on their spines.

I was planning to make 'Hate Story 2,' but I stepped out of that project. I don't want to repeat the genre.

I think that every time a country artist steps outside of the country boundary, it just brings more ears to us.

I'm not feeding my kid off movie roles so it's easy for me to say 'no' to things but it's important for me to have this presence and I know it's easy to stereotype and pigeonhole certain people that come from a certain genre but I can do more than a lot of people expect.

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

fusing themselves into a single new genre about partying all night with gangsta bitches screwing cowboys to the nasty beat that leads to Jesus.

After I started writing crime fiction, I said to myself, 'I may be limited, but the genre's not. There's no reason to change genres if I'm happy writing what I write.' And I am.

It's no secret that anybody who knows the music business knows that the numbers are substantially different in Christian music than they are in country music.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

At no time was I trying to write a crossover record.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

NME is normally associated with indie rock. It ain't something I read as a kid.

I've always been a fan of books that create an interesting blend of fact and fiction - whether it's Norman Mailer, or 'The Short Timers,' or 'In Cold Blood.' I'm a fan of that genre.

It's funny because I think that genre literature can be looked down on by literature literature. And I like that! I like being scorned; I like people looking down their noses at us a little bit... It gives us a little chip on our shoulder.

I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.

I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.

I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.

I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'

I love bossa nova. It's the most beautiful genre of music in the world.

'The Man in the High Castle' was not the first alternative history novel, nor even the first Nazis-win-the-war novel, but it is still probably the most influential book in the genre.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really.