Are you in Genre Prison?

I love this quote.  I try to avoid genre prison as much as possible.  I am open to any book that is a good book.  Are you?

“You know, I think some people fear that if they like the wrong kind of book, it will reflect poorly on them. It can go with genre, too. Somebody will say, “I won’t read science fiction, or I won’t read young adult novels”—all of those genres can become prisons. I always find it funny when the serious literary world will make a little crack in its wall and allow in one pet genre writer and crown them and say, “Well Elmore Leonard is actually a real writer.” Or “Stephen King is actually a really good writer.” Generally speaking, you know you’re being patronized when somebody uses the word “actually.”

This is Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, from an interview you can read here, quoted on John Green's Tumblr, which you can see here.