Genre Restriction Quotes

No, I can't do rap music!

When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album.

As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became successful, that was all they were allowed to do. So you end up talking to the bestselling science-fiction author who wrote a historical-fiction novel that everybody loved, but no one would publish.

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.