Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Octavia Butler

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

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.

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.

Dean Koontz

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Brion James

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.

Conor McPherson

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.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Daniel Woodrell

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Lexa Doig

I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period.

Moon Bloodgood

I love science fiction.

Mike Lee

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Khaled Hosseini

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

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.

Alfredo Alonso

Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Americans like it.

Hilary Rosen

Our list represents many different genres throughout all parts of the 20th century. And our hope is that each song will help tell a very different story,

Jonathan Levine

I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew up on that stuff. I would just grow up watching a lot of horror movies, a lot of slasher movies and then zombie movies.

Josh Logan

I like to think of my style as pretty versatile. And I'd like whatever I record to reflect that to be mostly genre - to be just something that people want to listen on to see what I'm going to come up with next. That's the kind of music I'm into.

Octavia Butler

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

Ji-Hae Park

I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.

Lauren Willig

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.