Genre Quotes

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.

I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

I'm not a genre film filmmaker. I'd rather look for a topic that I think we need to bring up and discuss because there's something about the issues in the film.

Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.

Entourage [movie] really is established as a genre unto itself, much like the thriller or the horror movie or the comedy. And those things trend.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and you had to claim your genre.

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

Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.

In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

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

A lot of times, actors and directors don't want to repeat something. I don't think we're repeating something, but I think there's certainly a genre that we're in, and we're happy to embrace it.

I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.

I'm not sure what my genre is, and to be honest, I'm not a huge fan of that word. I love all types of music regardless of what box it might fit in.

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.

I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.

Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

I do think, even though I've made these genre movies, there's what happens in the movie and then there's what the movie's about. And for me, what the movie's about is so much more interesting.

I love action films. It's my favorite genre.

I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

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.

Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.

I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.

A good song can be produced in several different genres.

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.