Writing Genre Quotes

I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think I have what it takes to write such a book.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I think that successful writers somehow capture truths that resonate with readers.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.

I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to connect to my stories. I don't consciously think about age demographics when I'm working on my comics.

I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something.

I don't write romance novels.

I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.

When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I've nothing to write.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all science fiction, which has some similarities to YA.

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

I don't like scaring people off. When I tell people I'm a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I'm weird.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

Academic writing is such a different way of writing.

At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

When I made the leap from category romance to larger single-title books, I was encouraged to make the book 'big,' and suspense was allowed. Over the years, I've been able to write the kind of books I love, with a balance of suspense and romance. How lucky am I?

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.