Genre Quotes

The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outsi...

An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best ...

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creatu...

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our ...

I think genre rules should be porous, if not nonexistent.

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are ...

His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactl...

Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think...

The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature is as follows: All literature consists of whatever the writer th...

A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their c...

People don't read anymore. And, when they do, they don't read books like this one, but instead read ...

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant

There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they mus...

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the ev...