Books Quote by Porochista Khakpour

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

— John Edgar Wideman

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

— Steve Erickson

All novels are experimental.

— Anthony Burgess

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

In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have…

— Richard Laymon

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

— Jonathan Dee

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

— Jeff Tweedy

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

— C.S. Lewis

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

— Paul Auster