Definition of Genre

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Definition of Genre
	Genre A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners. Kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature. Related Definitions: And, Art, Class, Everyday, Form, Genus, Imitative, In, Kind, Life, Literature, Of, Or, Other, Painting, Sculpture, Style, Which

Genre Quotations

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
Dean Koontz

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Dean Koontz

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.
Keanu Reeves

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
Nicholas Sparks

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
Lynn Abbey

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
Lynn Abbey

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.
Bruce Willis

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

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.
Bruce Willis

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
Anne Lamott

Genre Translations

genre in Afrikaans is genre
genre in Dutch is genre, genrestuk
genre in Swedish is stil, genre

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