Bits Quote by Steve Erickson

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

— 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

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

— John Edgar Wideman

The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the…

— Thomas Ligotti

Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the…

— William Golding

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

— Ken Liu

All novels are experimental.

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Rudy Rucker

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

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

— W. G. Sebald