I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil]…

I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many…

— Alexander Weinstein

Because for me to go fully experimental, it would turn into an artist book actually. And I'm not opposed to that. But I wanted…

— Porochista Khakpour

I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than let the…

— Xiaolu Guo

If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

80-percent of 'Enter the Void' is a traditional narrative movie. I suppose it's more similar to 'Jacob's Ladder' or 'Videodrome' than it is to…

— Gaspar Noe

I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and…

— Rick Alverson

There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the…

— Tony Kushner

Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at…

— Daniil Kharms

“Even Pushkin, who could understand everything, did not grasp the real significance of Dead Souls. He thought that the author was grieving for Russia,…

— Lev Shestov

Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich…

— Barbara Kingsolver

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

— Anonymous

I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.

— Terry Pratchett

“Gogol was usually the leading social poet, while Dostoyevsky usually the leading psychological poet. The former is known as the representative of the contemporary…

— Valerian Maykov

“Assured by his grades and his apparent indifference to girls, his parents don't suspect Gogol of being, in his own fumbling way, an American…

— Jhumpa Lahiri