Tom Bissell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To create anythingâ€¦ is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.
-- Tom Bissell

#Believe #Magic #Capable
Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.
-- Tom Bissell

#Book #Reading #Thinking
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-- Tom Bissell

#Writing #Wish #Doe
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

#Seductive #Impossible #Imitation
Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.
-- Tom Bissell

#Fun #Fulfillment
When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.
-- Tom Bissell

#Play #Games #Video
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.
-- Tom Bissell

#Children #School #Games
Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.
-- Tom Bissell

#Girlfriend #Games #Video
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.
-- Tom Bissell

#Artist #Facts #Addresses
To create anything â€” whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom â€” is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic â€” 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.
-- Tom Bissell

#Believe #Magic #Stories
[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 various page-proof passes-ranks among the most unnerving of my young life. It has not felt good, or freeing. It has felt nerve-shreddingly disquieting. Publication simply allows one that much more to worry about. This cannot be said to aspiring writers often or sternly enough. Whatever they carry within themselves they believe publication cures will not, I can all but guarantee, be cured. You just wind up with new diseases.
-- Tom Bissell

#Believe #Book #Editing
Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
-- Tom Bissell

#Hands #Opinion #Reader

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