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If I had stayed purely a horror writer or thriller writer, I might have more of a presence in those particular genres, and I'd certainly have more individual titles to market, since it's much easier to write pure genre fiction than it is to create something different. ~ Chet Williamson
Genre Fiction quotes by Chet Williamson
If you can't see the joy and wonder to be found in genre fiction, that's your problem, not mine. ~ William Meikle
Genre Fiction quotes by William Meikle
People who make snide comments to authors like "anyone can write a book" or "well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can't be that hard" or poke at a book because it's "romance" or "genre fiction" and act like that somehow makes it substandard because they don't read it ... well, ok, go ahead. Write a bestseller. Don't forget to go through the correct edit process. We'll wait. ~ Michelle M. Pillow
Genre Fiction quotes by Michelle M. Pillow
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it's the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn't get in the way of the story. ~ Rosemary Clement-Moore
Genre Fiction quotes by Rosemary Clement-Moore
For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um ... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something ... then yeah, they're old enough. LOL ~ Michelle M. Pillow
Genre Fiction quotes by Michelle M. Pillow
...I've never understood the logic that says a work doesn't need to be judged on the quality of its writing or characters simply because its genre. On the other hand, I've also never understood the logic of excusing a work from the need to tell a story worth telling about people worth knowing simply because the author writes pretty language or has some insights to offer. ~ Glen Hirshberg
Genre Fiction quotes by Glen Hirshberg
I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted with thriller and fantasy and even science fiction. I wanted the coming-of-age story and the love story to be about "outsiderdom" - one of the themes I am most interested in. ~ Porochista Khakpour
Genre Fiction quotes by Porochista Khakpour
If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You have a hero, there's a love interest, there's always a chase, there's fighting of some kind. You don't have to do that in a novel. But you do in a genre novel. ~ Alan Furst
Genre Fiction quotes by Alan Furst
Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts. ~ Lidia Yuknavitch
Genre Fiction quotes by Lidia Yuknavitch
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable. ~ Mark Haddon
Genre Fiction quotes by Mark Haddon
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Genre Fiction quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
I've read science fiction and fantasy all my life – though when you're a child, they just call that "books." The first book I ever read on my own was The Neverending Story. I studied classics at university, and in ancient literature, monsters, witches, magic, curses, and impossible machines aren't genre, they're just Tuesday afternoon. I had no idea that I was writing fantasy at first, because I was so saturated in Greek literature that it never occurred to me that my talking animals and sentient mazes were anything but realism. Our instinct toward folklore and magical stories, parables and imagining the future, are as much a part of the human experiences as divorce, grief, falling in love, politics, or raising children. I've always read fantastic literature, because it's always seemed truest to me. It makes the metaphorical literal and is all the more powerful for that immediacy and directness. I love genre fiction for the infinite expanse of stories it can tell – and it's been my constant companion since I was a very small child. ~ Catherynne M. Valente
Genre Fiction quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on. ~ Neil Gaiman
Genre Fiction quotes by Neil Gaiman
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. ~ Dashiell Hammett
Genre Fiction quotes by Dashiell Hammett
I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do
tell stories and entertain. ~ Michelle M. Pillow
Genre Fiction quotes by Michelle M. Pillow
The endless piles of genre fiction are the key to happiness. They're the key to picking out the things that actually make you happy in this world instead of the things that you're told are good for you. Ninety percent of everything you read is going to be crap one way or the other, so make sure it's the crap that makes you smile, and don't apologize for it.

pajiba.com guest post ~ Steven Lloyd Wilson
Genre Fiction quotes by Steven Lloyd Wilson
When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the book's demands, the subject's requirements - I love books, I always have. They have always been one of the places where I have felt very happy in the world. When I was younger, I loved to read genre fiction - I loved the magic-carpet ride of story! Now I need other things - I need the beautiful particular and strange language and form which brings a writer's book to life in me and speaks to my intellect, and, dare I say it, to my soul. ~ Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Genre Fiction quotes by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.) ~ John Gardner
Genre Fiction quotes by John Gardner
I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form of a spy novel, but it leads readers into a world of Kafkaesque irrationality. ~ Kim Young-ha
Genre Fiction quotes by Kim Young-ha
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
Genre Fiction quotes by Mark Haddon
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. ~ Yann Martel
Genre Fiction quotes by Yann Martel
They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if you're not constantly looking at your education model and adjusting for the change, you'll find yourself teaching antiquity. Like all of these programs that won't accept students who are writing genre fiction - what an institutional ego! ~ Tod Goldberg
Genre Fiction quotes by Tod Goldberg
... Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight at you; you have no conversation with a popular novel. Whereas you do have a conversation (you have an intense argument) with [literary fiction]. ~ Martin Amis
Genre Fiction quotes by Martin Amis
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations. ~ Julia Quinn
Genre Fiction quotes by Julia Quinn
[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Genre Fiction quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Geeks like to make things. Indeed, the drive to create is an intrinsic geeky quality (right up there with loving genre fiction and drinking too much Mountain Dew). And while many geeks may not think of themselves as creative in an artistic sense, most geeky pursuits--from rolling up a new D&D character to assembling the LEGO Star Wars Death Star kit (you know, the one with all the cool minifigures)--are acts of creation. ~ Ken Denmead
Genre Fiction quotes by Ken Denmead
A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development. ~ Thomas M. Disch
Genre Fiction quotes by Thomas M. Disch
Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent. ~ Mary Deal
Genre Fiction quotes by Mary Deal
I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time. ~ Shaun Tan
Genre Fiction quotes by Shaun Tan
Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound our own hearts
how even with the best intentions, we fail to love those closest to us as well as we wish we could. Eric Schroder should take his place among the most charismatic and memorable characters in contemporary fiction, and Amity Gaige her place among the most talented and impressive writers working today. ~ David Bezmozgis
Genre Fiction quotes by David Bezmozgis
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. ~ William Styron
Genre Fiction quotes by William Styron
Was it possible to be homesick for a soul? ~ Jessica Dotta
Genre Fiction quotes by Jessica Dotta
Suspense doesn't always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story. ~ Sandy Vaile
Genre Fiction quotes by Sandy Vaile
It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse ~ Nancy B. Brewer
Genre Fiction quotes by Nancy B. Brewer
I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate. ~ Derrick Bell
Genre Fiction quotes by Derrick Bell
To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live. ~ Diana Gabaldon
Genre Fiction quotes by Diana Gabaldon
Proud to announce that Esfir Is Alive has been selected as a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in Young Adult Fiction. ~ Andrea Simon
Genre Fiction quotes by Andrea Simon
In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere. ~ E.L. Doctorow
Genre Fiction quotes by E.L. Doctorow
Have you forgiven yourself?" The quiet question slipped between his ribs to stagger his breath. "Abby squeezed his hand. "That's the hardest part, I've found." A thickness crept up Zach's throat. "How do you manage it?" "Little by little. I take comfort in the scriptures that talk about how God removes our transgressions from us as far as the east is from the west, how He will remember our sins no more, how He urges us to cast our cares on Him. ~ Karen Witemeyer
Genre Fiction quotes by Karen Witemeyer
Ruby's was where I'd long picked up delicious bits and pieces of small-town troubles, and of course, Ramona Jean was my very best source. ~ Steven Norton
Genre Fiction quotes by Steven Norton
Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals. ~ Quentin Tarantino
Genre Fiction quotes by Quentin Tarantino
I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad. ~ Justin Cronin
Genre Fiction quotes by Justin Cronin
The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community. ~ Joshua Cohen
Genre Fiction quotes by Joshua Cohen
The wyvern swooped, but it was not to rend and tear but rather to bank and stare with one curious beady eye at the bodies of the minds that had touched hers in a way that no human had dared to do for hundreds of years. Such a slender and delicate creature, the wyvern thought, and so young, only a child in her reckoning, and yet with so much power. ~ Duncan Harper
Genre Fiction quotes by Duncan Harper
Life is a lie. We should fear it more than death. We live fearful of dying, terrified of the unknown … when, really, every truth is in our last breath. ~ Piper Payne
Genre Fiction quotes by Piper Payne
Wouldn't you like to be my lord Duke of Exeter? Come on, Dom. Say something."
"You have lost your mind."
"Say something less insulting. ~ Laura Andersen
Genre Fiction quotes by Laura Andersen
We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about getting away from that cliched old tired idea that the future belongs to the West. ~ Alastair Reynolds
Genre Fiction quotes by Alastair Reynolds
At the sound of her name, Lucia's blue eyes honed in on me. She cocked her head to the side as if puzzled. "Why me?" she wondered.
"Lucia, you exploded with power after Ehno was killed." I shot Ehno an apologetic look. "I felt your sorrow before I even knew something was wrong. It hit me like a freight train of boulders. You made the sky rain fireballs with red lightning. Need I say more? ~ Laura Kreitzer
Genre Fiction quotes by Laura Kreitzer
I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work. ~ Henry Rollins
Genre Fiction quotes by Henry Rollins
We have a few chicken-shit senators who are afraid of the NRA and its ilk, but with the right tweaks, I still think you have a shot . . . ~ Mark M. Bello
Genre Fiction quotes by Mark M. Bello
Did she still miss me sometimes like I missed her - missing that had no electricity, no lightning, or thunder, a missing like a hand digging into an empty chip bag searching for crumbs, any last salty bit, a missing more like mourning. ~ Jean Kyoung Frazier
Genre Fiction quotes by Jean Kyoung Frazier
I read a lot of fiction. ~ Leila Aboulela
Genre Fiction quotes by Leila Aboulela
Characters are just extensions of my madness. ~ Mark Tilbury
Genre Fiction quotes by Mark Tilbury
For some, vampires are still firmly in the 'evil, scary' column. However, in recent decades, vampires also run the gamut from evil to morally ambiguous all the way to fangless and vegetarian. I think part of their appeal lies in their versatility. Vampires can be the villain, the hero, and everything in between, all depending on the writer's whim. You'll also never hear me say that anyone is doing vampires 'wrong' because unless a real vampire stands up and sets the record straight, it's anyone's game as a far as defining them in fiction. ~ Jeaniene Frost
Genre Fiction quotes by Jeaniene Frost
This magnificent poem [Exodus 15:1-21] has been much analyzed, dissected, scanned, and compared with an array of supposed precedent and counterpart works. It has been variously attributed and dated, and forced into a wide variety of forms and Sitze im Leben. There have been attempts to determine some parts of it as early and some parts as late, and to describe therefrom an evolution of both its form and its content. None of these attempts has been entirely successful. The best of them have amounted to no more than helpful suggestions, while the worst of them have been fiction bordering fantasy. ~ John I. Durham
Genre Fiction quotes by John I. Durham
We both must burn this midnight oil together. You're just as new to me as I am you.
Andrew ~ Laura Kreitzer
Genre Fiction quotes by Laura Kreitzer
Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns. ~ Sergio Aragones
Genre Fiction quotes by Sergio Aragones
I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me. ~ Philippa Gregory
Genre Fiction quotes by Philippa Gregory
It is noteworthy that few works of fiction make marriage their central concern. As Northrup Frye puts it, with his accustomed clarity: 'The heroine who becomes a bride, and eventually, one assumes, a mother, on the last page of a romance, has accommodated herself to the cyclical movement: by her marriage ... she completes the cycle and passes out of the story. We are usually given to understand that a happy and well-adjusted sexual life does not concern us as readers.' Fiction has largely rejected marriage as a subject, except in those instances where it is presented as a history of betrayal
at worst an Updike hell, at best when Auden speaks of it as a game calling for 'patience, foresight, maneuver, like war, like marriage.' Marriage is very different than fiction presents it as being. We rarely examine its unromantic aspects. ~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Genre Fiction quotes by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Once a man discovers that his obedience is primarily for others' sake, that every miracle that ever amazed happened because of someone's obedience somewhere, that properly understood, his obedience prepares the way for His visitation, well, then we run up against the appalling result of attentive servants gladly going about His bidding without the slightest hesitation. Indeed, in the worse cases, they run where He says run with reckless abandon. ~ Geoffrey Wood
Genre Fiction quotes by Geoffrey Wood
I feel really lucky that, in my career, I've gotten a chance to explore a lot of different genres and kinds of films. ~ Ali Larter
Genre Fiction quotes by Ali Larter
You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road. ~ Susan Meissner
Genre Fiction quotes by Susan Meissner
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