Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philippa Gregory

At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.

Michelle Moran

With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author.

It would mean the end of made-for-TV movies on an ongoing basis. It could be another TV genre to go the way of Westerns and variety shows.

Chet Williamson

When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read a hundred times before.

Orson Scott Card

At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

Nora Roberts

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

Johnny Marr

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

Prince Royce

I feel blessed to even be able to put out an English album. Not too many Latin artists get the opportunity to come out and record another genre that's so different to Bachata.

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.

Alex Clare

I like songs in all different genres and types. My production and songwriting is everything from pop rock to hip-hop and everything in between.

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.

Daddy Yankee

In the past year we didn't have a true genre that speaks for the Latino's. Right now we have that with the reggaetone,

Condola Rashad

I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really driven by stories. So there are stories I want to tell, and if it's a good story then I want to do it, whatever genre it is.

J. August Richards

I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.

Horror is one of those genres that have a seemingly inexhaustible supply of audience. And this year there has been a preponderance of ones that have done well.

Marie Brennan

I didn't really distinguish between genre and not-genre as a kid, until I made the transition to adult fantasy via Terry Brooks.

Gina Holden

My brother is my go-to with scripts, especially when we're talking genre pieces, because I want to make sure that it's legit. I can love it, but then I pass stuff on to him.

Kix Brooks

We went totally out of our genre to make sure we weren't doing the same old thing.

Gloria Estefan

My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

Damien Chazelle

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

The sci-fi, supernatural genre has a more selective appeal,

Stjepan Hauser

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

Tom Morello

I came late to the genre of folk music.

Mark Pellegrino

The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.

Katie Aselton

The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me.

The genre is up and coming, but I'm not interested in the money. I'm interested in helping these kids to not hurt themselves, because I see that they're doing a lot of damage.

Joel Silver

The genre is not going to die. It's a great genre. You just need to find ways to make it fresh.

The genre is in the zenith of its explosion,

Octavia Butler

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

Thia Megia

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

Phil Anselmo

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.

Marc Guggenheim

The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all.

Martin Amis

Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.