Book Quote by John Edgar Wideman

I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.

— John Edgar Wideman

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

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 love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.

— Nicholas Royle

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 do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

— Edgard Varese

All novels are experimental.

— Anthony Burgess

Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.

— Edwin Boring

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

— Jess Walter

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

— Sinclair Lewis

It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most writers as…

— James M. Gavin

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

— Jasper Fforde