
„I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.“
— Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942
Interview with Joan Gordon
Contexto: There’s simultaneously something rigorous and something playful in genre. It’s about the positing of something impossible—whether not-yet-possible or never-possible—and then taking that impossibility and granting it its own terms and systematicity. It’s carnivalesque in its impossibility and overturning of reality, but it’s rationalist in that it pretends it is real. And it’s that second element which I think those who dip their toes in the SF pond so often forget. They think sf is “about” analogies, and metaphors, and so on. I refute that—I think that those are inevitable components, but it’s the surrendering to the impossible, the weird, that characterizes genre. Those flirting with SF don’t surrender to it; they distance themselves from it, and have a neon sub-text saying, “It’s okay, this isn’t really about spaceships or aliens, it’s about real life,” not understanding that it can be both, and would do the latter better if it was serious about the former.
— Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942
— Elizabeth Hand American writer 1957
"Elizabeth Hand on Mortal Love at HarperCollins (2004)
Contexto: I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.
— P. D. James English crime writer 1920 - 2014
Interview with Jake Kerridge, The Telegraph, 26 Sep 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6227400/PD-James-Queen-of-Detective-Fiction-Interview.html.
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— Bobby Knight American college basketball coach and former player 1940
Knight's reply to interviewer Connie Chung's question. "There are times Bobby Knight can't do it his way—and what does he do then?" From an NBC television interview by Connie Chung on April 25, 1988 as reported in the May 09, 1988 issue of Sports Illustrated. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1067309/index.htm
— Joe Barton United States congressional representative from Texas 1949
Contexto: I'm speaking totally for myself and I'm not speaking for the Republican Party and I'm not speaking for anybody in the House of Representatives but myself, but I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it's a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown.
— Elon Musk South African-born American entrepreneur 1971
— Richelle Mead, libro Last Sacrifice
Fuente: Last Sacrifice
— Alex Flinn American children's writer 1966
Fuente: A Kiss in Time
— Cassandra Clare, Cazadores de Sombras
Simon and Jace, pg. 427
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
— Richard Dawkins, libro A Devil's Chaplain
"Science, Genetics and Ethics: Memo for Tony Blair"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
— Rachel Maddow American journalist 1973
The Colbert Report, Comedy Central (November 6, 2008)
— Scarlett Johansson American actress, model, and singer 1984
Of her role as Black Widow in Iron Man 2, in Teen Hollywood (3 May 2010) http://www.teenhollywood.com/2010/05/03/interview-gwyneth-and-scarlett-iron-mans-ladies
Contexto: Well you know, I don’t think I have never really seen a film of this genre, where the female characters' sex appeal sort of came second. I mean of course they’re sexy characters. When you have a sexy secretary, or a girl swinging around by her ankles in a cat suit, you know that’s innately sexy, but the fact is that these characters are intelligent. They’re ambitious. They’re motivated and calculated to some degree.
— Jacques Barzun Historian 1907 - 2012
Quoted in "Jacques Barzun '27: Columbia Avatar" http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/jan06/cover.php by Thomas Vinciguerra, Columbia Today (January 2006)
— Ariel Dorfman Chilean writer 1942
On his decision of what genre to write in in “Interview with Ariel Dorfman” https://www.dalkeyarchive.com/interview-with-ariel-dorfman/ (Dalkey Archive Press)
— Tom Petty American musician 1950 - 2017
Interview With Alan Bangs (1999)
— Lorin Morgan-Richards American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer 1975
interview with Lorin Morgan-Richards by Laura LaVelle of Newswhistle (28 November 2017).