I began writing as an experimental writer.

One of the reasons I'm not so keen on people calling me an "experimental" writer is that it suggests the work is about the…

— Steve Erickson

I really dislike when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental. As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're…

— John Edgar Wideman

The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the…

— Thomas Ligotti

“It does seem, in other words, not only more difficult for a woman experimental writer to be accepted than for a woman writer (which…

— Christine Brooke-Rose

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art…

— Wole Soyinka

“what I knew that morning in March 1977 as we settled around the conference table. I wasn’t even sure how these guys reached us,…

— Phil Knight

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.…

— Robert Darnton

I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to…

— Anonymous

The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72. They hired…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a…

— Nelson DeMille

My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to reach everyone.…

— Dorothy Allison

“I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not…

— M.V. Carey

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to…

— Karl Marlantes

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with…

— Shelby Foote