Quotes on Genre

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.