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“I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.”

Novel Pieces Four Written Six These Days Genre Nonfiction

Author:Anne Lamott

“My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.”

Voice Style Appreciation Genre

Author:K. D. Lang

“I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.”

Want Film Western My Favorite All Time Genre Western Films

Author:Denis Leary

“Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.”

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Author:Iain Banks

“I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them.”

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Author:David Lynch

“I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.”

Knows Feels Kind Different Fans Supposed To Be Genre Different Kinds

Author:Bruno Mars

“I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.”

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Author:George R. R. Martin

“Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.”

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Author:George R. R. Martin

“The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.”

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Author:George R. R. Martin

“The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.”

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Author:George R. R. Martin

“I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre.”

Feels Country Genre Country Love

Author:Martina McBride

“I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place.”

Knows Feels Country Able Steps Careers Right Now Built Genre Good Place One Step At A Time Country Love

Author:Martina McBride

“The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.”

These Days Genre Holocaust

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“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.”

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Author:Rachel Nichols

“The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

“I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.”

Scripts Familiar Genre Knockoffs

Author:Edward Norton

“Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.”

Action Film Lines Growing Up Comedy Growing Genre Starks Action Films

Author:Beck

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

Culture Black Genre Other Cultures Genres Of Music Black Music

Author:Miguel

“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.”

“Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.”

Glad Genre Stunned Knighthood

Author:Terry Pratchett

“It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.”

Ifs Littles Said Book Real Enough Stars Stuff Bits Interesting Fiction Written Little Bit Science Fiction Educational Clever Genre Fiction Writers Genre Is Real Stuff Interesting Stuff

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.”

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Author:Dennis Quaid

“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.”

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Author:Keanu Reeves

“You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.”

Ifs Want Trying Kind I Can Different Play Character Actors Interesting Careers Genre Different Things

Author:Keanu Reeves

“I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.”

“Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.”

Country Bits Enjoy Huge Music Is Jazz Hip Hop Hips Genre Hops Genres Of Music

Author:Nicole Richie

“Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.”

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Author:Julia Roberts

“Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.”

“I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.”

“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!”

Doe Actors Genre Filmmaker Trapped Typecasting

Author:George A. Romero

“Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

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

Space Novel Sea Rivers Filled Genre Genre Is Literary Genre

Author:Jose Saramago

“All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.”

Ridiculous Genre Purity

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.”

Film Numbers Pieces Prove Genre Italian Gangsters Italian American

Author:Martin Scorsese

“When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero.”

Kids Jobs Film Opportunity Happened Hero Lucky Inspired Genre Pie Orange Good Job My Hero So Lucky Clockwork American Pie

Author:Sean William Scott

“My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.”

Too Much Focus Genre Amanda

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.”

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Author:Ed Sheeran

“It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you.”

People Feels Years Shows Night Speak Comedy Tough Court Sorry Genre Massive Loser Cheer Unemployment Defining Tough Times Taxi Feel Sorry For You Night Court

Author:Rob Sheffield

“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.”

Writing Done Reading Literature Speak Novel Areas Asking Various Variety Genre Mechanic Asking Questions

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“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.”

Want Writing Mind Book Focus Variety Genre Concentration

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.”

Firsts Play Differences Acting Comedy Drama Method Genre First Love

Author:Emma Stone

“A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.”

Firsts Real Form Stuff Space Fiction Science Fiction Genre Baptism Futuristic Very Cool

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.”

Thinking Ideas Character Might Happens Waiting Term Challenges Worry Approach Lifetime Studios Genre Sci Fi Paradigm Paradigm Shift Forward Thinking

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.”

Thinking Kind Stories Opportunity Childhood Genre Dna Superhero

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.”

Ends Reason Fiction Planets Goes On Tomorrow Science Fiction Endure Core Optimistic Genre The End Of The Day Cockroaches

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.”

Love Life I Can Helping Song Fall Relationship Inspired Genre Be Inspired

Author:Taylor Swift

“For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.”

Kind Fall Appreciate All Kinds Genre Categories Great Music

Author:Taylor Swift

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