#genres

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. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#asking #asking questions #authors #done #excel

I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a 'career builder.' I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with 'Caprica,' the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#been #builder #career #come #complex

We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#different genres #fusion #genres #mixture #now

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. ↗

— George Saunders

#did #generation #generous #genres #intelligence

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. ↗

— William Gass

#fiction #genders #genres #unquestionably #were

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#always #back #budget #changing #different

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#does #genres #good #good job #hip-hop

I love mixing up my genres. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#i #i love #love #mixing #up

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on. ↗

— Brad Delson

#band #biggest #cross-section #genres #grown

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#anthropology #course #folklore #forms #genres