Genre Quotes - Page 10

• Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Source: cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com

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• I feel like I have a very unique perspective especially for someone in the hip-hop genre. I'm not afraid to explore it, and how my upbringing then shapes my music and being a New York kid and all of that stuff...that's really the most unique thing I can offer to the music in general.

  Hoodie Allen

  New York, Kids, Unique

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• If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way that's not just cookie-cutter - that they bring something fresh or original to it, have some kind of ideas to it. I've been fortunate, in some sense, to do those kinds of movies that are unique.

  Keanu Reeves

  Unique, Talking, Ideas

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.

  Rob Zombie

  Facts, Kind, Harder

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• My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.

  Greg Pak

  Crazy, Real, Character

  "New Hulk Revealed, Will We See Him in a Marvel Movie?". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 4, 2015.

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• What bother me, not "bother me," exactly; that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once a movie like Paranormal Activity comes out and becomes popular - and that's a totally fine and valid movie - everyone starts copying it. Everything becomes a found-footage movie that looks like somebody shot it with their phone.

  Rob Zombie

  Horror Genre, Phones, Looks

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy is my bread and butter as a reader, and probably always will be. So it's only natural that I came to that genre as a writer.

  Saladin Ahmed

  School, Adventure, Years

  Source: fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com

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• I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kings, Horror Genre, Excellence

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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• Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to my heart, and it's fun to write, and when something's fun to write you don't think about what statement you're trying to make or what genre you're trying to hone in on.

  Rachel Bloom

  Fun, Writing, Heart

  Source: gawker.com

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• My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind.

  Stephen King

  Feelings, Intellectual, Mind

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Drama, Crazy, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• There are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first.

  Katie Aselton

  Different, Firsts, Thrillers

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too hard and emoting a little too much for the sort of introspective, respectful, sort-of folk genre thing. I'm really into punk and folk as music that comes out of communities and is very genuine and very immediate and not commercial.

  Ani DiFranco

  Community, Sound, Littles

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• I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.

  Tori Kelly

  Kids, Voice, House

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• There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for me, the idea of giving someone else the gift of inspiration and making them feel passionate and capable in an area of their life is the most incredible thing in the world.

  Matthew Hussey

  Inspiration, Self, Ideas

  "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• As players of instruments, it is our duty to reach out and give light to those in the dark in whatever way that we can. All my actions are a fulfilment of all the African music genres - I'm only trying to maintain the culture and the tradition. I am a musician.

  Sizzla

  Dark, Player, Light

  Source: nehandaradio.com

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• Blogging has helped create an expanded awareness of the creative nonfiction genre, generally. But I suspect many bloggers continue to be unaware that they are (or have the potential to be) "literary" or "artful."

  Lee Gutkind

  Creative Nonfiction, Blogging, Awareness

  Source: www.luxlotus.com

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• Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a writer can make a mark and change an aspect of the world - much more so than in fiction.

  Lee Gutkind

  Track, Mind, Fiction

  Source: www.luxlotus.com

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• And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others. Thanks to this genre, writers of nonfiction can now use the tools of the reporter, the points of view and ear for dialog of a novelist, and the passion and wordplay of the poet.

  Lee Gutkind

  Passion, Views, Two

  Source: speechwriting-ghostwriting.typepad.com

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• When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My writing process was heavily influenced by this - I went from a more heavy punk rock style to straight up sugary-sweet pop.

  Alex Goot

  Song, Sweet, Writing

  Interview with Kenneth Wong, www.popcultureonline.net. 2014.

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• I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Real, Thinking, Rapper

  Source: www.mtv.co.uk

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• 'Get Out' takes on the task of exploring race in America, something that hasn't really been done within the genre since 'Night of the Living Dead' 47 years ago.

  Jordan Peele

  Night, Years, America

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be different, and ideas about how they should be. I think fiction can capture that kind of thing better than other genres because in fiction you can explore the feelings of your characters - the before and the after.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Country, Character, Emotional

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• I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

  Dave McKean

  Thinking, Healthy, Anything And Everything

  Source: asitecalledfred.com

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• To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.

  Cate Marvin

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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