Tom Bissell Quotes

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

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

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

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

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

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

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

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

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.

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

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