These genre quotes will inspire you. Genre, a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging genre quotes, genre sayings, and genre proverbs.
Best Genre Quotes
- “By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it’s possible to learn how things are done – the mechanics of writing, so to speak – and which genres and authors excel in various areas.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
- “It doesn’t matter to me what the genre is.” ~ Steve Buscemi
- “Now that I’m being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I’m unabashedly genre. It’s what I like to read, what I like to write” ~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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“I’m not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.” ~ Lynn Abbey
- “One thing I know is that I don’t want to be a director for hire, making genre films.” ~ Paul Mazursky
- “I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.” ~ Carter Burwell , Music genre quotes
- “I think baseball – the baseball genre – is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.” ~ Rachel Griffiths
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“I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.” ~ Illeana Douglas
- “We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.” ~ Keenen Ivory Wayans
- “I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.” ~ Thomas Perry
- “I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.” ~ Sue Grafton
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“If one horror film hits, everyone says, ‘Let’s go make a horror film.’ It’s the genre that never dies.” ~ George A. Romero
- “SF isn’t a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.” ~ Larry Niven
- “The space genre is timeless.” ~ Dirk Benedict
- “We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.” ~ Bill Condon
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“I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.” ~ Robert Englund
- “Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.” ~ Marilyn Hacker
- “I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He’s a very talented director.” ~ Famke Janssen
- “The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.” ~ Sara Paretsky
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“I read a lot – and I read a variety of genres.” ~ Nora Roberts
- “Here’s the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn’t always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn’t so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.” ~ R. A. Salvatore
- “I like the Western genre, I think it’s uniquely American.” ~ Keith Carradine
- “I think I’m sort of locked into the sitcom genre” ~ Jason Marsden
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“I try not to discriminate against genres.” ~ Ryan Gosling
- “Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.” ~ Dean Koontz
- “The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.” ~ Shawn Ashmore
- “I never think about genre when I work. I’ve written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.” ~ Elizabeth Hand
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“I’m glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.” ~ Terry Pratchett
- “I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “What I had to say was, in general, I’m not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.” ~ Adam Arkin
- “It’s a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It’s America’s genre.” ~ Robert Duvall
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“The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.” ~ Ken Follett
- “I don’t mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.” ~ Mark Haddon
- “Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.” ~ Herbie Hancock
- “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.” ~ Brion James
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“Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.” ~ Dean Koontz
- “I’ve written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don’t really have a genre these days.” ~ Anne Lamott
- “As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I’m trapped in a genre that I love, but I’m trapped in it!” ~ George A. Romero
- “Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
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“I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.” ~ Roberta Williams
- “I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don’t see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.” ~ Guillermo del Toro
- “After I did the first Die Hard I said I’d never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.” ~ Bruce Willis
- “It is a different genre – a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television” ~ Chi McBride
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“I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.” ~ Leslie Banks
- “I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.” ~ Harold Bloom
- “A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.” ~ Thomas M. Disch
- “Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don’t know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.” ~ Jeff Probst
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“In mainstream romantic comedies, I’m usually tearing my hair out. It’s just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.” ~ Carter Burwell
- “But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.” ~ Octavia Butler
- “I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.” ~ Pope Francis
- “But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.” ~ Sarah Michelle Gellar , Film genre quotes
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“Some genres I’m not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.” ~ Ville Valo
- “Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?” ~ Tanith Lee
- “The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it’s almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?” ~ Damon Albarn
- “I don’t like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it’s not for me. There’s a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don’t suit me. It’s one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn’t yours is counterproductive.” ~ Luis Miguel
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“I’m developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything’s possible.” ~ Jay Roach
- “Up until doing this movie, I hadn’t really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.” ~ Chiaki Kuriyama
- “The new Pirates! builds on that legacy delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players… and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game.” ~ Sid Meier
- “In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.” ~ Alan Dundes
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“I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.” ~ Jeanette
- “Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.” ~ Sergio Aragones
- “I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.” ~ Sam Mendes
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“I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.” ~ Greg Lake
- “The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.” ~ Ruth Park
- “There are genres I don’t care for, and I’ve never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I haven’t liked and I haven’t worked for those people. But if I feel like there’s a movie that I would like to go see, I’ll jump into it.” ~ John Sayles
