Dislike Quote by John Edgar Wideman

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

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

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

I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It uses some…

— Porochista Khakpour

“Odd thing it is—the word ‘experiment’ is unpopular, but not the word ‘experimental.”

— C.S. Lewis

In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic…

— Ben Bova

I don't know if experimental is a word I would ever use comfortably.

— Jeff Tweedy

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

— Steve Erickson

I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.

— Doris Lessing

All novels are experimental.

— Anthony Burgess

Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.

— Edwin Boring

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

— W. G. Sebald