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“My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.”

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Author:Kina Grannis

“The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.”

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Author:Ken Follett

“For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.”

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Author:Jacqueline Emerson

“I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.”

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Author:Jennifer Egan

“I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.”

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Author:Robert Englund

“Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.”

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Author:Charles de Lint

“I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.”

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Author:Joe Flanigan

“In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.”

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Author:Juan Goytisolo

“The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“I think I'm sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you'll hear in whatever music you respond to, then I think it doesn't need to be called anything particularly.”

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Author:Lianne La Havas

“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.”

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Author:Marilyn Hacker

“Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.”

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Author:Chanel Iman

“I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.”

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Author:Bong Joon-ho

“When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.”

Author:Bong Joon-ho

“I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.”

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Author:Bong Joon-ho

“My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.”

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Author:Bong Joon-ho

“I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it's fun, and that's how I grow as an actor.”

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Author:Dwayne Johnson

“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.”

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Author:Famke Janssen

“What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.”

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Author:Theo James

“What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.”

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Author:Wyclef Jean

“I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.”

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Author:Chris Klein

“Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.”

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Author:Fran Kranz

“The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.”

“I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven the danger and action. The ones that really transcend the genre always have a great laugh in them, such as 'Fright Night,' 'Lost Boys,' 'American Werewolf in London' - just to name a few.”

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Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like Josh Turner and then turn around and be a big fan of someone like Taylor Swift because, at the end of the day, it's all about those songs. I feel like country music has the best songwriting and the best songs of any genre.”

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Author:Charles Kelley

“Radio used to be dominated by Tom Petty and artists like that. If Tom Petty came out today, he'd be played on country radio - all that stuff would. I think the genre has opened itself up to more styles of country, and I think that's a good thing.”

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Author:Charles Kelley

“As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.”

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Author:John Maeda

“Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.”

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Author:Amos Lee