In this quote, Rick Moody recommends that literature is something that has come prior to the development of specific genres. Essentially, this indicates that literature is a fundamental aspect in the production of genre-based works. For instance, novels and poems are part of literature and do not always suit rigorous category categories. However, the development of genres such as love, sci-fi, or mystery, is typically based upon the kinds of stories and elements that are discovered within literature. In other words, literature supplies the motivation and building blocks that allow for the development of newer and more particular categories within the bigger framework of literature as a whole.
This quote is written / told by Rick Moody somewhere between October 18, 1961 and today. He/she was a famous Novelist from USA.
The author also have 29 other quotes.
"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it"
