Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philippa Gregory

At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.

Michelle Moran

With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author.

The sci-fi, supernatural genre has a more selective appeal,

It would mean the end of made-for-TV movies on an ongoing basis. It could be another TV genre to go the way of Westerns and variety shows.

Chet Williamson

When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read a hundred times before.

Damien Chazelle

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

Herbie Hancock

I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

Lynn Coady

A novelist's sense that he or she is 'above' a certain genre mainly comes out of the notion that the genre is somehow a debased version of his or her preferred form.

Lorde

People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.

Brian K. Vaughan

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

James Cagney

There were many tough guys to play in the scripts that Warner kept assigning me. Each of my subsequent roles in the hoodlum genre offered the opportunity to inject something new, which I always tired to do. One could be funny, and the next one flat. Some roles were mean, and others were meaner.

Miguel

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

Mika

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

Keith Carradine

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

Stjepan Hauser

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

Prince Royce

I feel blessed to even be able to put out an English album. Not too many Latin artists get the opportunity to come out and record another genre that's so different to Bachata.

Robert Greenblatt

Comedy is king for me; it's the genre that everyone loves.

Jacques Audiard

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

Rachel Nichols

One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.

Nicholas Sparks

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

Katie Aselton

The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me.

Octavia Butler

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

Marc Guggenheim

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

Nora Roberts

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

Johnny Marr

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

Mark Pellegrino

The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.

Lynn Abbey

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

The genre is up and coming, but I'm not interested in the money. I'm interested in helping these kids to not hurt themselves, because I see that they're doing a lot of damage.

Joel Silver

The genre is not going to die. It's a great genre. You just need to find ways to make it fresh.

The genre is in the zenith of its explosion,

Martin Amis

Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.