“McKee's a genius. And hillarious. You'll like him, too, Charles. He's all for originality, just like you.He says that we have to realize that we all write in a genre and we must find our originality within that genre.As it turns out, there hasn't been a new genre since Fellini invented the mockumentary.My genre's thriller, what's yours? ”

“My favorite genre is Beautifully Written Books of Any Genre. Could we make that a genre?”

“Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.”

“The impulse to explain is the Achilles’ heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to expose their worlds to the sharp knife of intellection.”

“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.”

“Funny, they made this new genre called Speculative Fiction, I thought all fiction had always been speculative.”