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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: I don't know how video game narrative works.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

Tom Bissell quotes: Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.

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

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 quotes: I have had moderately meaningful relationships in which I invested less time than what I have spent on some BioWare games.

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

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

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

Tom Bissell quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The kinds of games I'm most interested in are narrative games.

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