#genre

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground. ↗

— Bruce Willis

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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#best #best work #doing #genres #i

Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#kind #love #movie #see #want

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#bee #bee gees #been #black #black music

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

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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. ↗

— Sue Grafton

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There's many different genres, and when you see R&:B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is. ↗

— David Guetta

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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. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anybody #been #eliminated #exercise #genre

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

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When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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