A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.
When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.
Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don't like Tom Purdom, you don't like science fiction. Period.
What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.
So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no. " No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.
I try not to discriminate against genres.
There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every time. " I get giddy when I come across lines like that - when the writer is not only making a meta-move, but one that troubles truth and fiction, the nature of genre itself.
I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.
I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller.
I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage.
The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.
I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.