To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.
When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad. - Tom Bissell
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
Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.
Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom. - Tom Bissell
Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game. - Tom Bissell
Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts. - Tom Bissell
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.
[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
[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…
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
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 bec… - 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…
Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self. - Tom Bissell
Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.
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