Books Quote by Mark Waid

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

— Steven Bochco

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a…

— Edmund White

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

— Daniel Woodrell

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

— Colm Toibin

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

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

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

— Robert Morgan

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological…

— Tom Robbins