Issues Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.

— Mark Waid

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

— Alexander McCall Smith

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

— Sol LeWitt

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back…

— Jennifer Egan

A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad,…

— Lorrie Moore

“Okay, let's say that a metamove or metagesture is when the author intentionally draws attention to a work's genre, its very existence as fiction…

— Jill Talbot

A novel means a new way of doing a story

— Romesh Gunesekera

In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Literature is about telling stories.

— Amos Oz

It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week. That was…

— Daniel Clowes

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually…

— Carol Bly