Genre Quotes - Page 33

• Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Powerful, Lying, Heart

  Jayne Ann Krentz (1992). “Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance”, p.113, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Manga is a very entertaining cultural form, made of many totally different genres. Don’t restrict yourself with a single style of manga. I would be delighted to be your springboard, but try to read as much as you can in order to branch out!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Order, Style, Trying

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

  Matt Haig

  Book, Genre Is, Fiction

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

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• Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

  Aberjhani

  Literary Genre, Intelligence, Mind

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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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• According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul.

  John Green

  Real, Eagles, Water

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.245, Penguin

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• The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.

  Roger Corman

  Halloween, Genre Is, Laughing

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• I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.

  Robert Pattinson

  Careers, Acting, Scripts

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• A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

  Eve Arnold

  Photography, Chance, Photographer

  Eve Arnold (1987). “Marilyn Monroe--an appreciation”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

  Harold Innis

  Democracy, Defeat, Economics

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• The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

  Robin Gibb

  Soul, Black, Style

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

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• You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music.

  Jimmy Webb

  Music, Beautiful, Country

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• Everyone has his own particular talent, niche and interests. Which isn't to say that you shouldn't try new genres or styles or explore forms other than the ones you're most comfortable with. But you should be willing to recognize that when writers try to make themselves into something they aren't or, more important, don't want to be ... they aren't going to be doing their best work.

  Kevin Alexander

  Writing, Style, Important

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• The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.

  Michele Soavi

  Horror Genre, Way, Visionaries

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• Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a new writer who has found his voice. Listen to him and enjoy!

  James Patrick Kelly

  Voice, Stories, Maintaining

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• I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

  Bruce Willis

  Running, Fun, Trying

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• I love to do films of all shapes and sizes and feelings and genres. So for me to go from Tomb Raider straight into Dear Frankie, there's nothing that excites me more than to keep mixing it up.

  Gerard Butler

  Feelings, Mixing, Shapes

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• I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

  Sam Neill

  Thinking, Roles, Film

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• A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

  Chris Jericho

  Wrestling, Rocks, Acting

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• I'm grateful when anybody can start to have his or her limited perception of the genre open up a little bit. There's a lot of great music in the country genre that doesn't get heard because people say, 'Well, I don't like country.'

  Keith Urban

  Country, Grateful, People

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

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• At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

  Keith Urban

  Impact, The End Of The Day, Ends

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• Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

  Tom Selleck

  Hollywood, Entertainment, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.

  John DiMaggio

  Children, Thinking, Adults

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

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• The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Art, Cutting, Class

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• A lot of times, actors and directors don't want to repeat something. I don't think we're repeating something, but I think there's certainly a genre that we're in, and we're happy to embrace it.

  Skylar Astin

  Thinking, Directors, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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