Calling Quote by 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

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

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

— Jeff Tweedy

I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before…

— Abel Korzeniowski

Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter…

— Ian Hacking

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

— W. G. Sebald

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

— Paul Auster

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

— C.S. Lewis