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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't know how video game narrative works.

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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