Admire Quote by Alexander Weinstein

While my stories are experimental, they're also very traditional. I love the works of the great Russian writers like [Pavel] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy,…

— Alexander Weinstein

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake, and if anything I've always…

— Steve Erickson

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

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

— Harry Hamlin

“I like authors who experiment with narrative and delve into very specific conditions within their characters in order to expose universal truths about humanity.…

— Amanda Knox

I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.

— Ava DuVernay

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht…

— John Scalzi

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists.…

— Alan Lightman

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and…

— Ron Howard

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested…

— Jonathan Dee

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms,…

— Helen Oyeyemi