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• It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

  Robert Duvall

  America, People, Different

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

  Ken Follett

  Literary Genre, Century, Thrillers

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• I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

  Mark Haddon

  Mean, Two, Fiction

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• Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Jazz, Borrowed

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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

  Genre Is, Want, Behavior

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

  Dean Koontz

  Genre Is, Fiction, Strict

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

  Anne Lamott

  Pieces, Four, Nonfiction

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• 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!

  George A. Romero

  Actors, Doe, Filmmaker

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• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Writing, Focus

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• I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

  Roberta Williams

  Travel, Believe, Adventure

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• I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Halloween, Independent, Horror Genre

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.

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• After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

  Bruce Willis

  Running, Firsts, Said

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• It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

  Chi McBride

  Teacher, Thinking, Doctors

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• I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

  Leslie Banks

  Writing, Imagination, Beacons

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• I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

  Harold Bloom

  Believe, Criticism, Doe

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• A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Development, Fiction, Kind

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• Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

  Jeff Probst

  Reality, Pie, Competition

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

  Carter Burwell

  Romantic, Hair, Comedy

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Knighthood, Glad, Stunned

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• I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Book, Thinking, Suspense Novels

  On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

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

  Octavia Butler

  Genre Is, Fantasy, Problem

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

  Steve Buscemi

  Genre Is, Matter

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

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• I try not to discriminate against genres.

  Ryan Gosling

  Trying, Genres Of Music

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• As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit - subliterature.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Moving, Years, Historical

  "Ursula K. Le Guin talks about genres, gender, and broadening fiction". Interview with Michael Cunningham, electricliterature.com. April 2, 2016.

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• If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

  George A. Romero

  Horror Genre, Film, Dies

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

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