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• But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

  Bruce Willis

  Guy, Action, Film

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

  Octavia Butler

  Fantasy, Problem, Sometimes

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• 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.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Philosophy, Book, Eye

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• 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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Clever, Real

  "Sir Terry Pratchett: hallucinating gently for a living". Interview with Corinne Podger, www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2011.

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• 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.

  Rachel Nichols

  Talking, Hot, Topics

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

  Dean Koontz

  Fiction, Genre, Strict

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• 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.

  Brion James

  Want, Behavior, My Favorite

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• My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, People, Marketing

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• I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read people whose work is in the same vein as yours and those whose genre is totally different. You've heard of chain-smokers. Writers, especially beginners, need to be chain-readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Night, People

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• Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take even the most walk-shy tourists to their chosen destination. As a bonus, there is traditionally at least one murder on board each trip--a "consideration" to the head steward will ensure that it is not you.

  Jasper Fforde

  Journey, Rivers, Water

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• At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Responsibility, Warrior, People

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• It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.

  Steve Buscemi

  Matter, Genre

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

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• I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.

  Tania Raymonde

  Fans, Doe, Boards

  "Actress Tania Raymonde talks 'Texas Chainsaw 3D'". Interview with oseph Airdo, www.axs.com. January 3, 2013.

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• Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Community

  "The third act of Steven Van Zandt" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

  Henry Flynt

  Art, Purpose, Logical

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• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Baseball, Thinking, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Love, Determination, Book

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• What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

  Jacques Audiard

  Use, Bigs, Certain

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• Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.

  Janet Morris

  Book, Heart, Technology

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• There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

  Matt Haig

  Book, Fiction, Genre

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Real, Thinking, Play

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