A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books but of course they never read them, and people who make sure I know they don’t read that space-ship stuff. No, no, they read Literature–realism. Like The Help, or Fifty Shades of Grey.Anonymous
About This Quote
This quote is a message to not believe genre prejudice. A genre is a group of works that share the same general subject and style. There is no such thing as a "realist" or "space-ship" genre. Every genre has its own subject matter and scope of interest.
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