Experiments Quote by 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

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

— Porochista Khakpour

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

— John Edgar Wideman

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

— John Cheever

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

— Rudy Rucker

One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to…

— Robert J. Sawyer

All novels are experimental.

— Anthony Burgess

Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.

— Ken Liu

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

— Denis Leary

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

— Henry David Thoreau