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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. — Tom Bissell

It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years. — Tim Berners-Lee

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling. — Tom Bissell

Are you happy?" "Every time I think of him. — Jim Provenzano

Of that time, there is still much we do not know. — Tom Bissell

There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can. — Tom Bissell

I've been on the tour for 23 years and anybody who knows me knows that I am a jokester. — Fuzzy Zoeller

Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates. — Richie Sambora

To create anything ... is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. — Tom Bissell

There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey. — Tom Bissell

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts. — Tom Bissell

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience. — Tom Bissell

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment. — Tom Bissell

I don't know how video game narrative works. — Tom Bissell

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me. — Stephen Graham

Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like this.--reviewing Nicholson Baker's House of Holes — Tom Bissell

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you. — Jeanette Winterson

I've got some issues that nobody can see and all of these emotions are pouring out of me I bring them to the light for you it's only right — Kid Cudi

That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness. — Criss Jami

When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad. — Tom Bissell

The average action game doesn't much traffic in thematic grandiosity, but the BioShock games are different. — Tom Bissell

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom. — Tom Bissell

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum. — Thelonious Monk

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth. — Rachel Bilson

The world, finally, is no longer large, and to ignore it likely requires more effort than to simply take notice. — Tom Bissell

I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy. — Tom Bissell

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self. — Tom Bissell

The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain. — Tom Bissell

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game. — Tom Bissell

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy. — Paulo Coelho

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. — Tom Bissell

There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people. — Viktor Yushchenko

I have had moderately meaningful relationships in which I invested less time than what I have spent on some BioWare games. — Tom Bissell

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom. — Tom Bissell

I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It's a strange disconnect. — Tom Bissell

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes. — Tom Bissell

Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art. — Tom Bissell

The kinds of games I'm most interested in are narrative games. — Tom Bissell