Experimental Fiction Quotes

“I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards, it is the listener who must experiment.”
― Edgard Varèse

“The word "avant-garde," for example, despite its note of impartiality, generally serves to dismiss-as though by a shrug of the shoulders-any work that risks giving a bad conscience to the literature of mass consumption.”
― Alain Robbe-Grillet, For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction

“i am estranged from most men. my american express card says simply: multicellular animal with specialized digestive cavities -- requires corrective glasses”
― Mark Leyner, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

“That odd infallible sliding-like-crystal air on water that means day's left dawn for morning.”
― H.D., HERmione

“I want the world to bleed when it brushes up against me.”
― Jonathan Douglas Duran, I Am the Fire That Flares Up Again

“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, I Am the Fire That Flares Up Again

“Silent, scarlet picking though this grand new year, an optimistic premise promised with sickening cheer. So please, pull up a chair and take a stand for all grand intentions. List your resolutions then kindly re-arrange them. Departmentalize your wicked, wonton ways - tell me all about yourself, but spend the most time on the things you hate. Pull out all your in-efficacious and ridiculous disguises; put on a simple act but perform it with abandon. Put your heart and your soul into the fire. Burn your thoughts before you think them, burn them up and take their stink in.”
― Jonathan Douglas Duran, I Am the Fire That Flares Up Again

“On ‘Hey Boy’. by A.W.W. Bremont:

“[…] taken to the level of de Sade.

Structurally, the book is quite like an epic poem, with repeated stock phrases for things and people. Imagine the Iliad written via high postmodernism, though, structurally. If William S. Burroughs had taken a crack at The Metamorphosis instead of Ovid.
For a small book, this makes a helluvan impact. I can't wait to see more from Bremont in the future.”
― J. Warren

“A small ground, some burnt woods, a building – the last place for everyone”
― Rabi Chatterjee, Finding and other stories

“Anders burst our laughing. He covered his mouth with both hands and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," then snorted helplessly through his fingers and said, " Capiche - oh, God, capiche," and at that...”
― Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain

“Meaning is optional.”
― jackie ll, Pointless

“A thought passed by. It didn't stop. I didn't chase it. Good balance.”
― jackie ll, Pointless

“Pointless but very much on purpose.”
― jackie ll, Pointless

“For a faster life: make more phone calls.”
― Doworth Howard, Thick, Thin, What The Dragon Let In: Stories, Rhymes, and Reveries

“What if the universe is expanding because when you die, or anyone or anything dies, they become a star?”
― Doworth Howard, Thick, Thin, What The Dragon Let In: Stories, Rhymes, and Reveries