14th June 2017 | for Creatives | reading, create for YOURSELF, writing, genre, creative freedom, categorization of art, Heather Graham |
"I never read, particularly, a mystery or a romance or a sci-fi. I just read anything. When I started out [writing], I don't think I had the concept of 'They must be shelved somewhere.'"
"I never thought of myself as a horror writer. That's what other people think. And I never said jack shit about it. [My wife] came from nothing, I came from nothing, we were terrified that they would take this thing away from us. So if the people wanted to say 'You're this,' as long as the books sold, that was fine. I thought, I am going to zip my lip and write what I wanted to write."
"Perhaps in part because they have fewer rules to follow, they must rely more on universal techniques and stay truer to their inner compasses. Without genre crutches to lean on they must walk the walk of true novelists. You can call them genre-bending if you like, but I call them genre-transcending. While they may establish a new category, they are genuine fiction masters."
"The biggest for me [by self-publishing] is the freedom to write what I want when I want. I can jump genres and write several novels a year. Traditional publishing is much too restrictive. I don't want to pump out the same book over and over. I want to challenge myself and produce the work that I feel is missing from the marketplace."
"If you're truly worried about sounding too much like a specific author, read outside of your genre when you're writing."
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