Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
quote by Dean Koontz
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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.
quote by Mark Haddon
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I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.
quote by Luis Miguel
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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
quote by Jose Saramago
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
quote by Larry Niven
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To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
quote by Sheri S. Tepper
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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.
quote by Robert Duvall
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Poetry is the least artificial of the literary genres.
quote by Julio Martinez Mesanza, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
quote by Joan D. Vinge
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If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
quote by William Gass
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The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
quote by Ken Follett
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
quote by Tanith Lee
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Science fiction still is an idea genre.
quote by Sheri S. Tepper
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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
quote by Marilyn Hacker
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I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
quote by Sue Grafton
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By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.
quote by Nicholas Sparks
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Books I Read
I was once asked
what sort of books I read.
To be honest
I never gave it much thought.
I read all sorts of books
from crime fiction to poetry,
by many assorted authors.
I read literary classics
and some not so classic at all.
If they asked me
who my favourite author is,
again I’d be in confusion there too.
However a few of the names
that spring to mind are,
F Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck,
Ernest Hemmingway, James Herriot,
Agatha Christie, Edgar Wallace
and surprisingly enough Mickey Spillane.
I have no favourite author
of any particular genre
as I only read
how I feel at the time.
27 February 2008
poem by David Harris
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A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.
quote by Thomas M. Disch
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I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
quote by Daniel Dae Kim
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Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
quote by Rick Moody
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Nuances
Unterpolating meanings and the nuances of my thought,
And of the impact of a literary genre!
For i was called in to love your sweet muse and i responded like,
The many languages of the African Continent!
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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