Genre Fiction Quotes: top 52 famous quotes about Genre Fiction

Genre Fiction Quotes & Sayings

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I likes me some 'Shit Blows Up' fiction, don't get me wrong. — Hal Duncan

This a work of f(r)iction, where fact and fiction rub up against each other, and nobody wants to know it regardless. — Bob N. Boguslavski

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises. — Gerald Jonas

It [science fiction] really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations. — Steven Spielberg

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

The crescent sun is high, the moon low;
life is not for the faint-hearted;
so why the fuck should art be? — Hal Duncan

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

Science fiction still is an idea genre. — Sheri S. Tepper

Horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. It is a progressive form of fiction, one that evolves to meet the fears and anxieties of its times. — Douglas E. Winter

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.' — Brian K. Vaughan

Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent. — Mary Deal

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning. — Douglas Lain

And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity. — Benjamin Kane Ethridge

There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.' — Dave Gibbons

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism. — David G. Hartwell

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction. — Lauren Willig

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development. — Thomas M. Disch

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre. — Alaina Huffman

If you can't see the joy and wonder to be found in genre fiction, that's your problem, not mine. — William Meikle

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre. — Mal Peet

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction. — Glen Duncan

Soylent Brown? It ain't people, but it comes from them. — Hal Duncan

I am self-educated from genre books. — Charlaine Harris

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre. — Anna Torv

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. — Yann Martel

Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing. — Paul Park

Fiction is people having extraordinary reactions to ordinary things, but in genre fiction, they have ordinary reactions to extraordinary things. — Mary Robinette Kowal

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment. — Stanley Ellin

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

Fuck, if only 'aesthetic idiom' didn't sound so damn poncy. — Hal Duncan

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics. — Kathleen Rooney

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching. — Zoe Saldana

Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that's appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider. — Christopher Rice

I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book. — Bob Mayer

Shadowchild! - Don't let her get in your head! — Matthew Williams

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre. — Ben Lerner

I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff. — Gail Carriger

I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd. — Allen Covert

In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn't matter if you're filthy. In theory anyway. — Hal Duncan

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book. — Matt Haig

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre. — J. Michael Straczynski

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective. — Nnedi Okorafor

Funny, they made this new genre called Speculative Fiction, I thought all fiction had always been speculative. — Teri Louise Kelly

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks

All worlds of fiction are alternative realities. — Hal Duncan

I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre. — Don Roff

Horror is the only genre where you don't have to explain everything. Things happen just because and that alone makes it scary. — R.A. Horn

The reason fantasy fiction remains such a vital and necessary genre is that it lets us talk about such things in a way realistic fiction cannot. — Stephen King

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought. — Amanda Schull

Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we're talking now, not factuality but possibility. — Hal Duncan

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. — Dashiell Hammett