Experimental Fiction Quotes

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

Steve Erickson

#2. THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD Experience Card's full versatility, from science fiction to fantasy, from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction.

Orson Scott Card

#3. I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#4. When we are not connected with our emotions, we are not connected to ourselves.

David W. Earle

#5. I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.'

Demetri Martin

#6. To the believers it is true.
To the wise it is false.
To the leaders it is useful.

Seneca The Younger

#7. When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

Roger Waters

#8. All novels are experimental.

Anthony Burgess

#9. One is almost tempted to say ... at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond does not really exist at all: it is a most convenient fiction which, as we have seen, is convenient both to experimental and theoretical chemists.

Charles Coulson

#10. I want to give a beautiful speech at the end of the world - a rousing and inspiring collection of thoughts expressed eloquently through a dying language that is ultimately too little too late; absurd and utterly meaningless - almost insulting as life burns away.

Jonathan Douglas Duran

#11. What happens when I click this-- will Facebook know about it?

Michael Filimowicz

#12. I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

Felicity Jones

#13. I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#14. I want the world to bleed when it brushes up against me.

Jonathan Douglas Duran

#15. People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis ...

Charlotte Mew

#16. Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

Henry James Sumner Maine

#17. In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.

Richard Laymon

#18. Clarke grabbed his hand, and together, they started down the staircase into the darkness.

Kass Morgan

#19. Then why are you flirting with me?"
"I can't seem to help myself." -Nash

M. Leighton

#20. There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

Jonas Salk

#21. Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

John Hodgman

#22. - I'm so happy for you, Ellie - I tell her honestly.
- I'm happy for me, too - she tells me with another laugh.

Tara Sivec

#23. Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William Jennings Bryan

#24. I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.

Sandra Cisneros

#25. I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

Leni Zumas

#26. That odd infallible sliding-like-crystal air on water that means day's left dawn for morning.

H.D.

#27. Twas hard to dislike a man she so enjoyed in bed. Twas harder still to dislike one who kept showing her a more gentle side to his nature

Johanna Lindsey