#genre

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#been #crime #favourite #genre #novel

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

— Terry Pratchett

#glad #got #i #knighthood #me

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

#built #came #composer #composers #concept

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. ↗

— George Saunders

#did #generation #generous #genres #intelligence

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. ↗

— William Gass

#fiction #genders #genres #unquestionably #were

The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience. ↗

— Joel Silver

#audience #designed #female #found #four

I have no problem with television as a genre. ↗

— James Purefoy

#i #no problem #problem #television

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#difficult #genre #hair #i #just

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror. ↗

— Peter Straub

#genre #horror #writing #anger

My favorite genre is Beautifully Written Books of Any Genre. Could we make that a genre? ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#genre #beauty