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Tom Bissell Quotes

I like reading books with both hands, with my heart pumping, with blood on the page. So I’m interested in people who make stuff, and I’m interested in the lives that make the text. To read a book or watch a movie any other way, to me, personally, feels like a waste of time and misapplication of energy Picture Quote #1

I’d been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart Picture Quote #1

Every book in the ‘Dreams’ cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America’s native peoples and its European colonizers Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angle from the larger medium, and in ways that can be hard to articulate Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to Picture Quote #1

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment Picture Quote #1

Reading gives one something to think about other than one’s self Picture Quote #1

To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts Picture Quote #1

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception Picture Quote #1

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I like reading books with both hands, with my heart pumping, with blood on the page. So I’m interested in people who make stuff, and I’m interested in the lives that make the text. To read a book or watch a movie any other way, to me, personally, feels like a waste of time and misapplication of energy. (Tom Bissell Quotes) I’d been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart. (Tom Bissell Quotes) Every book in the ‘Dreams’ cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America’s native peoples and its European colonizers. (Tom Bissell Quotes) 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. (Tom Bissell Quotes) Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angle from the larger medium, and in ways that can be hard to articulate. (Tom Bissell Quotes) 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. (Tom Bissell Quotes) A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to (Tom Bissell Quotes) Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment (Tom Bissell Quotes) Reading gives one something to think about other than one’s self (Tom Bissell Quotes) To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic (Tom Bissell Quotes) 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 Quotes) An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts (Tom Bissell Quotes) This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception (Tom Bissell Quotes)