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Because for me to go fully experimental, it would turn into an artist book actually. And I'm not opposed to that. But I wanted…

— Porochista Khakpour

I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict,…

— Alexander Weinstein

If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

80-percent of 'Enter the Void' is a traditional narrative movie. I suppose it's more similar to 'Jacob's Ladder' or 'Videodrome' than it is to…

— Gaspar Noe

I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and…

— Rick Alverson

I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many…

— Alexander Weinstein

There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the…

— Tony Kushner

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

— Ayad Akhtar

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

— Ted Rall

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't…

— A. S. Byatt

“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your eyes closed.”

— Jessica Bell

Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and…

— Karen Russell