Genre Is Quotes
Genre Is Quote of the day
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
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 demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.
I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.
Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.
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.
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!
The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.
No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.
Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.
My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid.
I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to be new and have some real artistic integrity.
