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

- Tom Bissell

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

- Tom Bissell

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

- Tom Bissell

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.

- 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

[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through its vario…

- Tom Bissell

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

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

- Tom Bissell

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

- Tom Bissell