By embracing a label such as 'non-fiction,' the creative writing community has signaled to the world that what goes on in this genre is at best utilitarian and at worst an utter mystery. We have segregated the genre from art.
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CHARLES STROSS As we have begun a new genre of television with the increasing use of small production companies tha... CHERYL RHODEN I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order t... JACK ZIPES Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I still don't know what genre I fit into. I want to try my hand at different things and find out... ESHA GUPTA I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can per... MARK HADDON Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The ... HAMPTON SIDES Coming from 'V' into 'Homeland' was a really big change and the best gift as an acto... MORENA BACCARIN 'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The ... ERIC BALFOUR I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's ... LAURA MENNELL The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. Th... DOUGLAS LAIN It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romant... JOHN LE CARRE I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of ... BEBE REXHA It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionat... DANIEL DAE KIM 'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, ... BEN MENDELSOHN My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, ... BONG JOON-HO Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in t... DOUGLAS LAIN He invented a new genre in world choreography -- the genre of folk dance. He was the first man to se... YELENA SHCHERBAKOVA I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of ... MONIE LOVE I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiw... VIRGINIA HENLEY A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about r... CHAIM POTOK I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge wit... RIAN JOHNSON When I applied for grad school, I did not specify genre. I said I wanted an MFA in Creative Writing.... TERRANCE HAYES I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there ... SHAUN TAN I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writ... ALAN FURST Can we call the essay its own genre if it's so promiscuously versatile? Can we call any genre a ... JOHN D'AGATA It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literatu... IAN MCEWAN What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is... JOHN CARPENTER I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science... EMMA CAULFIELD Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in th... ELIOT SCHREFER There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is e... PETER THIEL I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, t... JOHN LEGUIZAMO As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there&... ALEXANDRA PATSAVAS "Within every creative idiom one finds a range of endeavors
that inform, encompass and at times defi... DJ GARRITY I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the... FLOYD SKLOOT The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films... DAVID A. R. WHITE It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'... TERRY PRATCHETT I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre. MAL PEET Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre. MAREN MORRIS I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to... REID SCOTT What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all a... BRAD THOR I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many ... SAMANTHA SHANNON When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to... EDWARD HIRSCH Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral con... JOANNE DOBSON I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction. ROBERT J. SAWYER The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is a... HENRY MILLER The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as 'cul... NORMAN DAVIES Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane... EMMA MCLAUGHLIN Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't? DAVID WONG Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. DEAN KOONTZ The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre? RAE CARSON I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble... ELEANOR CATTON We feel that the genre of African dance — it's not unlike the genre of French classical dance or m... VINCE PAUL It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that lab... ORNETTE COLEMAN I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.'... GALE ANNE HURD That's what's great about the horror genre is that you're getting a load of people toget... WES CRAVEN I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is... KIM YOUNG-HA The celebrity reviewers are people we contacted who, on a genre-specific basis, we assumed would hav... JUSTIN BECKETT Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction. LAUREN WILLIG I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven the d... SHERRILYN KENYON The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but... JOHN LE CARRE In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which ... CLIVE SINCLAIR I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there does... GAIL CARRIGER I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer ... THOMAS LIGOTTI This auction has opened a space at the bottom for a new generation of artists to come into auctions.... DINESH VAZIRANI Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety o... NICHOLAS SPARKS I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type o... QUENTIN TARANTINO When we started with 'Big Brother' and created the reality genre, no one could ever foresee ... JOHN DE MOL, JR. The distinctions of what makes a book one genre or another can sometimes be a bit muddy, but general... THERESE FOWLER Do our what we call 'soul', does it have a genre, like female male? The soul is one common thing we ... EPHDAN A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in ... M. JOHN HARRISON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING 'Luther' is raw and brutal like 'Game Of Thrones,' but it's coincidence. If I... ROSE LESLIE In 'Windtalkers,' the director John Woo is meticulous in melding his own intimate style into... ELVIS MITCHELL I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the ... ED SHEERAN To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the gen... TAYLOR SHERIDAN It's interesting that we assign the label 'political' to art that doesn't just fit a... RIZ AHMED 'Insidious 2' is a direct continuation of the first movie. We literally pick up from where w... JAMES WAN I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always ha... WONG KAR-WAI I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho. VALORIE CURRY
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