Genre Quotes

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

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 novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; its a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. Its all right there in front of us.

What scares me is what scares you. We’re all afraid of the same things. That’s why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you’ll know what frightens me.

It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.

Vampires are a genre now.

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.

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 films in the first place.

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

I try not to discriminate against genres.

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.

Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.