Quotes for All
[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up – of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, \”Oh, there’s literary fiction, and beneath that, there’s these other things.\” He’s actually saying … Read more
In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers and the films that you just think you’ve seen before, it’s kind of going back to the well in terms of trying to conjure up the spirit of what made you excited about … Read more
Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It’s great. Dwayne Johnson
The space genre is timeless. Dirk Benedict
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. Dean Koontz
Genre is a minimum security prison. David Shields
Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you. David Farland
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. Conor McPherson
The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it’s a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off… If you don’t have the material, the characters and the things to overcome … Read more
There are no requirements when you’re using a particular genre. It’s not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work. Charlie Jane Anders